painter, art teacher and modeller, claimed to be from the Academy of Milan when he advertised as an ornamental and fresco painter and carver at Archibald Murray 's sculpture studio in the New Buildings, Pitt Street, Sydney in 1859. He had been at 130 Spring Street, Melbourne in 1854, the year he exhibited two oil paintings, Madonna and Child and Fruit and Flower Piece , at the Melbourne Exhibition. In 1861 he was teaching drawing and design at the Italian Consulate, 57 New Pitt Street. By 1868 Signor Pedroncinni, listed as an artist of 51 Forbes Street, Sydney, was also employed as drawing master at Mr Powell’s Commercial Academy and School of Arts, Balmain. He was again at Melbourne in 1872, showing The Triumph of Spring and Flora (distemper) and The Wife of Uriah at the Bath (oil?) in the Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition preceding the 1873 London International Exhibition. Group of Leaves, Representing the Origin of the Corinthian Capital, in Indian Ink and A Decorative Design were shown at the 1875 Victorian Intercolonial Exhibition from Fitzgibbon Street, Richmond.
In 1882 a drawing by 'P. Pedroncini, Walker Street, Goulburn’ (NSW) had been rejected for the Illustrated Sydney News 's art competition because the rules stipulated that pseudonyms be used. Although the surname was spelt with and without a double 'n’ in both colonies, both refer to the same artist.
- Writers:
- Staff Writer
- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
