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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1205278, member: 5833&quot;]Took a bit of a flyer in bidding on this group, but yesterday&#039;s mail proved it justified.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]214140[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]214141[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]214142[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Guide books for Rome in the second half of the 19th century list Paolo &amp; Luigi Neri, mentioning that Madame Neri (presumably a wife) was also a talented cameist, as a good source for portrait cameos.&nbsp; Of the handful of photo examples of Neri signatures I have been able to round up, no two are exactly alike.&nbsp; A number are marked like this one, Neri F[ecit] Rome, but in different hands.&nbsp; This one is odd for having a Greek E at the end of Rome but an ordinary E in Neri.&nbsp; Frequently pieces are attributed to Paolo by default; the most that can be said with confidence is that they are products of the Neri family workshop.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not likely I&#039;ll ever own work by the greatest of the 19th century artists, not unless I get very, very lucky.&nbsp; But definitely gradually assembling a collection of the second &amp; third ranks.&nbsp; Neri is another box checked.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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