Guglielmo Stella (Milan, 1828 – Venice, 1894) studied self-taught between Milan and Vienna, where he specialized in figure drawing and genre painting, which was inspired by that of the Dutch seventeenth century, but mainly set in the Venetian atmosphere.
From 1868, Stella began teaching figure and industrial decorative composition at the School of Applied Arts in Venice. He later became its director for the next twenty years.
In the 1950s, Guglielmo Stella participated in various exhibitions in Turin, where he presented some of his most famous works, such as "The children of misfortune condemned to entertain the world", "Virtue and vice", episode of the Venice carnival and "Temptation of a mother".
Furthermore, he participated in several exhibitions of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and in the exhibitions of the Austrian Artistic Society, achieving the greatest success in the Milanese exhibitions of 1872 and the Venetian ones of 1887.
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