Filadelfo Simi

He also paints the realistic Portrait of Old Lady, now found in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in the Palazzo Pitti.

In 1883, he was nominated a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy; he became Honorary Academic In Florence (1884), Bologna (1888) and the Brera Academy in Milan (1895).

At the 1885 Promotrice of Florence, he exhibited a Studio dal vero, and at 1887 at the Venetian Exposizione Nazionale Artistica, he had a painting titled: l'l riflesso, and a Portrait of his parents.

The former painting would later be awarded a gold medal at an 1888 Munich Exhibition and in 1893 at Florentine Annual Exposition of Fine Arts, a grand prize worth 5000 Lire.

He also was a sculptor, sending in 1908 a large marble statue commissioned for a chapel in Halifax, Canada by the rector of the Accademia Monte San Vincenzo.