Clelia Bompiani-Battaglia (5 August 1848 in Rome – 23 February 1927 in Rome) was an Italian painter.[1]

"Sul lungomare"

She was a pupil of her father, Roberto Bompiani, and of the professors in the Accademia di San Luca.[2] She was an accomplished watercolorist.[3]

The following paintings in watercolor established her reputation as an artist: Confidential Communication ( (1885); the Fortune-Teller (1887); A Public Copyist (1888); and The Wooing (1888).[4]

Along with Alceste Campriani, Ada Negri, Juana Romani, and Erminia de Sanctis, Bompiani is named as one of Italy's best modern painters.[5]

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  1. ^ Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Aagaard - Heideck (in German). 1895.
  2. ^ La vita italiana rivista illustrata (in Italian). 1896.
  3. ^ Allgemeine Kunstchronik: ill. Zeitschr. für Kunst, Kunstgewerbe, Musik, Theater u. Litteratur (in German). 1888.
  4. ^ Waters, Clara Erskine Clement (1904). Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. (Public domain ed.). Houghton, Mifflin. p. 47.
  5. ^ Cronau, Rudolf (1919). Woman Triumphant: The Story of Her Struggles for Freedom, Education, and Political Rights. Dedicated to All Noble-minded Women by an Appreciative Member of the Other Sex (Public domain ed.). R. Cronau. pp. 237–.

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  •   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: C. E. C. Waters' "Women in the Fine Arts: From the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D." (1904)