Giuseppe Angelelli
Born
in
Portugal
to
Italian
parents,
Giuseppe
Angelelli
(1803-1844)
was
already
a
well-travelled
aspiring
painter
by
the
time
he
moved
to
Florence
in
1818
to
attend
the
Academy
of
Fine
Arts.
In
1827,
he
traveled
to
Egypt
on
the
Franco-Tuscan
Expedition
led
by
archaeologists
Ippolito
Rosellini
and
Jean-François
Champollion.
There,
he
made
numerous
drawings
of
the
expedition
that
were
later
engraved
and
included
in
Rosellini’s
three-volume
book,
I
monumenti
dell’Egitto
e
della
Nubia.
A
skilled
landscape
and
portrait
painter,
Angelelli
was
also
commissioned
by
the
Grand
Duke
of
Florence
to
paint
official
portraits
of
the
members
of
the
expedition
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