Guglielmo de Sanctis

Guglielmo de Sanctis was an Italian painter.
He was a pupil of Tommaso Minardi at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and wrote a biography about his teacher. He also spent some time in the studio of Cesare Marianecci in Florence.
Early in his career, he painted religious and historic themes, in a style highly influenced by his master's Purismo movement, an Italianate incarnation of the Nazarene movement. Later in life, he dedicated himself to the more profitable career as portraitist; among his subjects were King Umberto I of Italy and his wife Margherita of Savoy; the Emperor of Brazil; Napoleon Carlo Bonaparte; the playwright Giacinto Gallina; Count Terenzo Mamiani; Antonio Rosmini; N. Tommasso; the art writer Pietro Selvatico; the politician Vincenzo Gioberti; the merchant Giovan Pietro Vieusseux; the diplomat Constatino Nigra; Gioacchino Rossini; and many prominent Italian aristocrat and fellow artists including Filippo Palizzi and Bernardo Celentano.