Artist
Nicolino Calyo
Italian, 1799–1884
Nicolino Calyo was an Italian Romanticism painter. 6 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art, most of them watercolors. Nicolino Calyo was born in Naples.
Nicolino Calyo (1799 – 9 December 1884) was an Italian-American painter best known for his paintings of the Great Fire of New York and other scenes in New York City. Born in the Kingdom of Naples in 1799, Calyo began studying art there before leaving in 1821 after taking part in a failed political uprising against King Ferdinand IV. He then traveled across Europe, continuing to study and produce art.
After settling in Spain, Calyo was forced to migrate to the United States following the outbreak of the First Carlist War. He first landed in Baltimore before settling permanently in New York. In New York, Calyo witnessed the Great Fire of New York, which he depicted in a series of 22 works.
He also completed numerous other works and commissions, including a series of watercolors portraying common laborers in New York entitled Cries of New York. He utilized gouache heavily and created numerous different kinds of paintings, including landscapes, portraits, miniatures, and panoramas. During his lifetime, his works garnered him a degree of fame, particularly his Great Fire paintings. Calyo died in New York on 9 December 1884.
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