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Antonio Mancini was an Italian painter. Mancini was born in Rome and showed precocious ability as an artist. At the age of twelve he was admitted to the Institute of Fine Arts in Naples, where he studied under Domenico Morelli (1823-1901), a painter of historical scenes who favored dramatic chiaroscuro and vigorous brushwork, and Filippo Palizzi (1818-1899), a landscape painter. Mancini developed quickly under their guidance, and in 1872 he exhibited two paintings at the Paris Salon.

While in Paris in the 1870s he met the Impressionists, and also became friends with John Singer Sargent. His mature works showed a brightened palette and bold impasto, and he also excelled in the use of pastels. In 1883, Mancini settled in Rome, and from 1912 to 1918 he lived in Frascati. He died in Rome in 1930.

His painting,The Poor Schoolboy, exhibited in the Salon of 1876, is now in the Musee d’Orsay. Its realist subject matter and dark palette is typical of his early work.

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