Guglielmo de Sanctis

); the playwright Giacinto Gallina; Count Terenzo Mamiani; Antonio Rosmini; N. Tommasso; the art writer Pietro Selvatico; the politician Vincenzo Gioberti; the merchant Giovan Pietro Vieusseux; the diplomat Constatino Nigra; Gioachino Rossini; and many prominent Italian aristocrat and fellow artists including Filippo Palizzi and Bernardo Celentano.

He also painted a Sermon of St Francesco di Sales for the cathedral of Porto Maurizio and biblical subjects for the Hospital of Santo Spirito e Fatebenefratelli in Rome.

He also painted a Galileo demonstrates the use of a telescope to Venetian Signoria (circa 1867) and a canvas depicting Donna Olimpia Pamphili, sent to the International Exposition in Berlin in 1891 (now in Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome).

He became an honorary member of the Academia di San Luca, and received from the government posts to judge or represent the country at many art exhibitions at home and abroad.

[3] Among the topics were Gioacchino Rossini; Aleardo Aleardi; Giacomo Leopardi; Alessandro Manzoni; Michelangelo; the Exposition of Milan in 1872; Bernardo Celentano; Exposition of Antwerp in 1885; Cesare Maccari; Francesco Podesti; and Agli alunni delle scuole d'arte applicata all' industria e alcune poesie.