FATTORI, Giovanni
(b. 1825, Livorno, d. 1908, Firenze)

Biography

Italian painter and etcher. Initially established as a painter of military subjects, he came to be one of the leading Italian plein-air painters of landscape with figures. He was one of the leaders of the group known as the Macchiaioli. Towards the end of his life he produced many excellent etchings, mainly of rural subjects.