biografía de Antonio CAPELLANO (1780-1840)

Lugar de nacimiento: Italy

Lugar de defunción: Italy

Direcciones: NYC, 1815; Baltimore, MD; Wash., DC

Profesión: Sculptor

Estudios: Canova (Italy)

Exposiciones: American Academy (1816: The Peace of Ghent," presumably a clay group); PAFA (1824: "Chloris")"

Obra: U.S. Capitol(relief sculpture The Preservation of Captain Smith by Pocahontas" over the north door of the rotunda; bust of George Washington and relief sculpture "Fame and Peace Crowning Washington" over door of the rotunda portico)"

Comentarios: Active in America from 1815 to 1827. Employed to work on the U.S. Capitol in Wash, DC, Capellano also spent some time in Baltimore and NYC (working on the Battle Monument and church decoration) in 1815-17. He returned to Italy in 1827, so prosperous after his years in America, it was said, that he retired to uno piccolo pallazzo" in Florence, where Rembrandt Peale met him in 1830.

Fuentes: G&W; Fairman, Art and Artists of the Capitol, 27, 30, 39; Dunlap, History, II, 468. More recently, see McMahan, Artists of Washington D.C., 35."