Riccardo Nobili

Nobili was born in Florence, then in the grand Duchy of Tuscany, but part of the Kinbgdom of Italy when it was formed in 1861, but moved to Paris as an adult.

He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence under Antonio Ciseri and Telemaco Signorini, attending also the Scuola Libera del Nudo.

He exhibited at Livorno, in 1886, the small canvases Pioggia e In birreria, and at the 1887 Società Promotrice, he displayed the nostalgic vedute of La piazza del Vecchio Mercato, Florence, a view of a neighborhood destroyed during the urban renewal of the late 19th-century.

[4] He is better remembered for his text on the Gentle art of faking; a history of the methods of producing imitations & spurious works of art from the earliest times to the present (1922)[5] In 1933, Nobili married Grace Cleveland Porter (1880–1953), the daughter of William Dodge Porter, and the grand-niece of U.S. president Grover Cleveland.

Owing to her extraordinary service to Italy, despite being a Protestant, she was granted special permission to be buried next to her husband in the family chapel near Florence.