biography of Giacinto RIBONI (XIX)

Birth place: Piacenza (Italy)

Addresses: Settled in Philadelphia by 1835

Profession: Portrait and figure painter

Exhibited: Artists Fund Society, Phila. (1835-38)

Work: Hist. Soc. of Pa.

Comments: Active in Rome between 1819 and 1828. His death date is unconfirmed: Thieme-Becker gives 1838 but the Historical Society of Pennsylvania owns four portraits by him of the Boker family, one of which is signed and dated 1839.

Sources: G&W; Thieme-Becker; Rutledge, PA; information cited by G&W as being courtesy the late William Sawitzky; Phila. BD 1838, CD 1839.