Important Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Francesco Vinea, 1873 Drawings & Prints each door having a decorative

each door having a decorative iron grill

the blue ground decorated with scrolling gilded foliate

" The dispenser fitted with a brass spigot and standing on a flared circular foot

The chest is in excellent condition and ready to grace your home

Henry Joseph Fradelle

Important Antique Italian Oil on Panel Painting Costume Genre Dog & Beauty Francesco Vinea, 1873 Drawings & Prints each door having a decorativeA very good antique oil on panel costume genre painting by the celebrated Northern Italian artist, Francesco Vinea (1845 1902), the painting dated signed and dated 1873. Vinea studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and then worked as a designer of illustrated periodicals, he returned to Florence and studied under professor Enrico Pollestrini. Vinea unapologetically produced incredibly high quality humorous and whimsical scenes that were