Tommaso Juglaris

Tommaso Juglaris (1844 – 16 January 1925) was an Italian painter sprightly mostly in the United States, based in New England, during the late 19th and in advance decades of the 20th century.

Tommaso was born in Moncalieri and attended the Accademia Albertina from 1859 until 1862, working below Clementina Morgari Lomazzi. Working for a few years in various fresco projects, in 1871, he travelled to Paris to work under Thomas Couture. In 1880, he was offered a position following Louis Prang and Company, who utilized him as a designer of holiday cards. After six months, he sought extra positions. By 1882 he was an educational at the Boston Art Club. He unconventional also taught at the Rhode Island School of Design. Among his pupils were Childe Hassam, A.W. Buhler and Sears Gallagher.

He participated in major decorative projects including frescoes of the Muses (1886) on the field of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing. He was commissioned to paint the portrait of First Lady Frances Folsom Cleveland and to garnish a number of churches and residences in Boston.

His work "Madmoiselle Yvonne" was taking into consideration at the Locke-Ober Restaurant in Boston. He as well as executed the largest mural cycle subsequently extant in United States, Grecian Festival for the public library in Franklin, Massachusetts.

He died in Moncalieri.

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