Charles Edward Perugini

This is one of my very favorite paintings, so I decided to look up the artist.

His name is Charles Edward Perugini. He lived from 1839 to 1918, was born in Italy, but spent much of his life in England. He trained under Lord Leighton and married one of Charles Dickens' daughters, Kate, who was also a painter.

"The themes of his pictures are mainly nice girls doing peaceful things like reading, or just dressed in rich costume and looking contemplatively, often with a romantic tone." Girl Reading (also called In the Orangery)is probably his best-known work; it was painted in 1878.







Here's a picture he did of his wife, Kate: