Achille Peretti (artist) explained

Achille Peretti
Birth Date:	1853 or 1857
Birth Place:	Italy
Death Date:	1923
Death Place:	Chicago, United States

Achille Peretti was an Italian-American painter.

Biography

Peretti was born in 1853 or 1857 in Italy. He attended art school in Rome and Milan's Accademia di Belle Arti. Peretti immigrated to the United States in the early 1880s and settled in New Orleans in 1884, where he stayed through his last year. He became an American citizen in 1890 and died in Chicago in 1923.

Peretti painted in various formats and decorated churches in the Gulf Coast, New Orleans, and Chicago.

Selected works

• Portrait of Hector Berlioz
• Portrait of an Elderly Lady
• The stampede, 1900
• Tree lined street
• Rooster and Chickens in the Barn
• Irish Channel Woman

Further reading

• Atti della Reale Accademia di belle arti di Milano, Vari, Milano, 1860-1894.
• Isaac Monroe Cline, Contemporary art and artists in New Orleans, 1924
• Federal Writers' Project, Louisiana: A Guide to the State, US History Publishers
• John Mahe, Encyclopedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918, Historic New Orleans, New Orleans, 1987
• Henry Rightor, Standard History of New Orleans, Louisiana, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1900