Adriano Cecioni

Adriano Cecioni (July 26, 1836 – May 23, 1886) was an Italian artist, caricaturist, and critic associated with the Macchiaioli group.

His submission, a maquette for a statue of Charles Albert of Savoy, won a prize but was deemed unsatisfactory by academicians and was not commissioned.

[1] In 1872 Cecioni spent six months in London, where he contributed a series of caricatures to Vanity Fair magazine.

[1] After he returned to Italy, the sculptures he produced for the rest of his career were mainly genre works, often humorous in nature.

Cecioni's activities as an art critic, which began in the 1870s, consumed an increasing amount of his time in his later years.