Lot Torelli

He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, but in 1858, due to family misfortunes, had to leave Florence for Paris.

Other works were completed alongside Giuseppe De Fabris include Il mar glaciale, bronze bas relief and The Angel Messenger of Peace found in the urban cemetery of Pisa.

Torelli completed many funereal monuments, including one commissioned by Marchesa Toscanelli for her son Giovanni, who is buried at his villa alla Chiocciola near Florence; another for signora Giulia Mari and her daughter for the cemetery of Jacopo in Terenzano.

He completed portraits of the son of Mr Doggett of Chicago; the son of Mr Waldo, of New York; of the Duke Pado of Mecklenburg Schwerin; and of Mrs Fiyrer of London.

Tasso as a youth; The Shameful; Psiche al laccio; Colomba messaggera; Pescatori; a half-figure of an old man titled Last Loves; Soap Bubbles (a half-figure); La sorpresa; The princess of Wales; Fior di Maria; Il soldatino; Shakspeare also called il fattorino del Beccaio; and Eve.

Self-portrait