- Alexander Rossi
Alexander Mark Rossi was a successful British artist specializing in
genre works whoflourished in the late 19th century. He was born in 1841 onCorfu , the son of Dr Mark Rossi, an Italian who was one of the three judges presiding over theIonian Islands during the time of British rule.On a visit to
Preston in 1866, he met and married Jane Gillow and remained in theUnited Kingdom thereafter. In the 1870s he moved toLondon .Rossi exhibited 66 works at the
Royal Academy between 1871 and 1903. Many of his paintings are of children and young adults, the models often members of his family. Perhaps his most well-known painting is "Forbidden Books" (1897).After his first wife's death, he married Silvia Tassart in 1902.
Rossi died in London in 1916.
"Forbidden Books" (1897)
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