Explore: Ferdinand-Jean Luigini

(1870 - 1943)

The French painter Ferdinand-Jean Luigini was born into an artistic family, including his father Alexandre Luigini (1850-1906), a leading composer of ballets and operas. Luigini studied in Paris with the Belgian poet and art critic Emile Verhaeren (1855–1916). He began exhibiting his landscapes and architectural renderings in Paris in 1892 with the Salon des Artistes Francais. His works were regularly exhibited in London, Brussels, Amsterdam and New York.