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Achille Peretti was an Italian-American painter.
Biography
Peretti was born in 1853 or 1857 in Italy. He attended art school in Rome and Milan's Accademia di Belle Arti. Peretti immigrated to the United States in the early 1880s and settled in New Orleans in 1884, where he stayed through his last year. He became an American citizen in 1890 and died in Chicago in 1923.
Peretti painted in various formats and decorated churches in the Gulf Coast, New Orleans, and Chicago.
Selected works
Portrait of Hector Berlioz
Portrait of an Elderly Lady
The stampede, 1900
Tree lined street
Rooster and Chickens in the Barn
Irish Channel Woman
References
Further reading
Atti della Reale Accademia di belle arti di Milano, Vari, Milano, 1860-1894.
Isaac Monroe Cline, Contemporary art and artists in New Orleans, 1924
Federal Writers' Project, Louisiana: A Guide to the State, US History Publishers
John Mahe, Encyclopedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918, Historic New Orleans, New Orleans, 1987
Henry Rightor, Standard History of New Orleans, Louisiana, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1900
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