Francesca Stuart Sindici (1858 – c. 1929) was a Spanish-Italian painter.
Sindici was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1858. She studied under the guidance of Eduardo Dalbono and Domenico Morelli at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts.Stuart Sindici in Italian dictionary of artists She married the Italian poet Augusto Sindici. Together they had a daughter, Magda, who became a novelist and later married a publisher. She died in 1929 at the age of 71.
Sindici is best known for her paintings of horses and cavalry. Her painting A Carriage Race at Naples (Pictured) was included in the 1905 book Women Painters of the World.Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, by Walter Shaw Sparrow, The Art and Life Library, Hodder & Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London, 1905
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Francesca Sindici on artnet Spedizione di Roma 1870, il passaggio del Tevere , 1870 painting in the Museo centrale del Risorgimento, Rome