Augusto De Arcangelis

{{short description|Italian painter (1868–?)}}

Augusto De Arcangelis (born in Lanciano, Province of Chieti, June 22, 1868) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Naples, depicting genre subjects and landscapes.{{cite book |last=Garollo |first=Gottardo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dqc8AQAAIAAJ |title=Dizionario biografico universale |publisher=Editore Libraio della Real Casa, Milan |year=1907 |editor=Ulrico Hoepli |page=642 |language=it |trans-title=Universal Biographical Dictionary |id= |authorlink=}}

Biography

A local contest awarded him a stipend from the province of Chieti to study at Naples.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz0bAAAAYAAJ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti], by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, Page 163.

In 1887 he exhibited at the Promotrice Salvator Rosa, a study: Il mio sogno; in 1888, Innocenza. In 1888 at Aquila, a seascape and Ingenuità napoletana. In 1902 at Turin, Come le rose.[http://www.istitutomatteucci.it/it/dizionario-degli-artisti/de-arcangelis-augusto Istituto Matteucci] biography.

He was one of the painters represented in the exhibition of Il sentimento della Natura, held in 2012 at the Museo Vittoria Colonna of Pescara.[http://ilcentro.gelocal.it/pescara/cronaca/2012/10/13/news/sentimento-e-natura-nella-mostra-dei-pittori-abruzzesi-1.5856767 Museo Vittoria] Exhibition.

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