Albert Ludovici senior (1820–1894) was a German-born, British-naturalised painter who specialised in portraits, genre scenes and decorative pictures. Born in Zittau, Saxony, in 1820, he moved to Paris in the 1840s and studied at the Atelier Drölling.
He later moved to England and established himself as a portrait painter, returning to Paris in 1850 to marry Caroline Grenier. He became a British subject in 1871. His career crossed French and British artistic circles, and he exhibited frequently in London.
Ludovici became a member of the Society of British Artists in 1867 and served as its treasurer. He also showed paintings at the Royal Academy, British Institution and other London and provincial galleries. His subjects ranged from portraits and fashionable interiors to everyday scenes treated with a lively interest in character and gesture.
The Strolling Savoyard (1884), executed in watercolour and gouache, is an example of his genre painting. The work is signed and dated, although its wider exhibition history is not established.
He knew artists in the circle of James McNeill Whistler, who served as President of the Society of British Artists during the 1880s. His son, Albert Ludovici junior (1852–1932), also became a painter and was active in the same artistic milieu. His daughter Marguerite pursued painting as well.
Ludovici senior died in Switzerland in 1894. His paintings record both the formal portrait traditions and the scenes of contemporary life popular among nineteenth-century audiences.
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