(1853 - 1909)
The prolific artist, Ludovico Marchetti, was a born in Rome in 1853. In the early 1870s he studied in the studio of the Spanish painter Mariano Fortuny y Marsal, also based in Rome. At 25, he moved to France and began to exhibit at the Paris Salon (winning the bronze medal in 1889) and in the Salons of Munich and Berlin. Marchetti specialised in history and period genre subjects, most frequently painting scenes from the 16th to the 18th centuries. He worked in both oil paint and watercolour and produced several illustrations for the French weekly news publication ‘L'Illustration’.
