Federico Rossano Biography
Federico Rossano (Naples, 31 August 1835 – Naples, 5 May 1912) was an Italian painter, son of Vincenzo, retired colonel of the Napoleonic armies in Russia. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, first choosing the architecture school and then changing direction and attending painting courses for a period, under the guidance of the painters Gennaro Ruo and Giacinto Gigante. He therefore chose to continue alone, following his inspiration, after being dismissed from the Academy for indiscipline. He was in close relationship with Giuseppe De Nittis. They joined Marco De Gregorio, Adriano Cecioni, Giuseppe Mancini and other painters, giving rise in 1863 to the School of Resìna, also called the School of Portici, which was in close relations with the Macchiaioli group and with realism. In 1875, after the death of De Gregorio and at the invitation of De Nittis, he moved to Paris, where he remained for about twenty years, taking inspiration from the impressionists - from whom he took a fluid, luminous and clear brushstroke - and from the art of Corot. He painted Parisian landscapes with delicate transparencies and imbued with subtle melancholy. He married Zelye Brocheton, daughter of a notary from Soissons, in 1880. He participated in exhibitions both in France and in Italy, a personal exhibition in Paris in 1889, exhibitions in Vienna in 1873 and in London in 1880. In 1893 he returned to Portici. In Naples, through the interest of the painter Domenico Morelli, he obtained the chair of painting at the Royal Academy of Drawing, which he held until 1902. He participated in the Venice Biennale from 1899 to 1905, and in 1910.
