Francesco Duramano (18th century) was an Italian painter known for floral still lifes.Dizionario biografico universal, By Gottardo Garollo, 1907, page 713. He was born in Venice, and active there and in Brescia.
Duramano learned to paint from his mother, a painter of flowers. He became a prominent decorative painter.Le pitture sculture ed architetture delle citta di Rovigo con un prospetto, by Francesco Bartoli, (1793), page 239.
The art historian Luigi Salerno, says that Francesco, or his contemporary Carlo Henrici, could be the painter he identifies as pseudo-Guardi Wikiart org website or the Maestro di Fiori Guardeschi. For an example of such a painting would be the Roses, Peonies, and Tulips sold by Christies in 2006.[https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-4697215 Christies lot 4697215. Other painters in this style or orbit include Margherita Caffi and Elisabetta Marchioni.[https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/0700099683 Catalogo Beniculturali, regarding painting in Galleria Rizzi in Sestri Levante, near Genoa.
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