Estella Canziani

Estella Louisa Michaela Canziani (12 January 1887 – 23 August 1964) was a British portrait and landscape painter, an interior decorator and a travel writer and folklorist.

Her most famous work was a water colour entitled The Piper of Dreams, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1915.

Her paintings document the clothes and lifestyle of the local people living in remote villages in Northern Italy.

She published three travel books: Costumes, Traditions and Songs of Savoy (1911), Piedmont (1913) and Through the Apennines and the Lands of the Abruzzi (1928), her writings gaining her membership of the Royal Geographical Society.

A large part of her collection is preserved in the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.