biografía de Michele Felice CORNE (c.1752-1845)

Lugar de nacimiento: Island of Elba, Italy

Lugar de defunción: Newport, RI

Direcciones: Salem, MA, 1800-06; Boston, 1807-22; Newport, RI, 1822-45

Profesión: Marine,, landscape, portrait, and mural painter, panoramist, teacher

Estudios: probably studied ornamental painting in Naples

Exposiciones: His six-foot panorama Attack on Tripoli" was shown at Washington Hall in Salem, Mass., 1807"

Obra: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Ct.; Essex Inst. and Peabody Mus., both in Salem, Mass; NYHS; Bowdoin (ME) College Mus A, BMFA (Karolik Collection); New Haven Colony Hist. Soc.

Comentarios: CornÈ grew up in Naples and was brought to the U.S. in 1799 by Salem merchant Elias Hasket Derby, Jr. He was active in Salem until 1806, working at times with Samuel McIntire and William King, and helped establish marine painting as a Salem tradition. After moving to Boston, he became particularly noted for his paintings of ships and naval battles of the War of 1812, many of which were engraved for Abel Bowen's The Naval Monument (1816). He was also an accomplished decorative and mural painter and in 1810 traveled to Providence to paint a mural cycle in the newly-built Sullivan-Dorr house which includes a view of the Bay at Naples (the house is at 109 Benefit St., not in Newport as stated by G&W). After 1822, CornÈ made his home in Newport, RI. Among his pupils were George Ropes and Hannah Crowninshield.

Fuentes: G&W; Nerney, An Italian Painter Comes to Rhode Island"; Knox, "A Note on Michel Felice CornÈ"; Swan and Kerr, "Early Marine Painters of Salem"; Bentley, Diary; Mason, Reminiscences of Newport; Allen, Early American Wall Painting; Little, American Decorative Wall Painting; Robinson and Dow, Sailing Ships of New England, Vol. I. More recently, see Gerdts, Art Across America, vol. 1: 63, 89, 92; Brewington, Dictionary of Marine Artists.