Augusto Volpini

{{short description|Italian painter}}

Augusto Volpini (1832 – 1911 or 1923{{Cite book |last=Dini |first=Piero |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R9jqAAAAMAAJ |title=Giovanni Fattori: epistolario edito e inedito |last2=Fattori |first2=Giovanni |author-link2=Giovanni Fattori |date=1997 |publisher=Edizioni Il torchio |pages=482 |language=it |trans-title=Giovanni Fattori: Published And Unpublished Correspondence}}) was an Italian painter of mainly genre paintings and portraits.

He was born in Livorno, and initially trained with the Livornese painter Giovanni Bartolena. Among his works are Varietà, Daydreaming child, and Il colpo di grazia. In 1886 at Livorno, he exhibited Una mosca simpatica. At the 1886 Promotrici of Florence, he exhibited Studio; in 1887, Odalisca; and in 1889, Povera madre! and a Portrait of Carlotta Cordarf.{{Cite book |last=Gubernatis |first=Angelo De |author-link=Angelo de Gubernatis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz0bAAAAYAAJ |title=Dizionario degli artisti italiani viventi, pittori, scultori e architetti |last2=Matini |first2=Ugo |date=1889 |publisher=Tipi dei successori Le Monnier |language=it |trans-title=Dictionary Of Italian Visual Artists: Painters, Sculptors And Architects}} He became professor and curator of the local academy.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0l1fkgAACAAJ |title=Catalogo della collezione d'arte e d'antichità |date=1986 |language=it |trans-title=Catalog Of The Arts And Antiquities Collection}}