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| Born in Hamburg, Charlotte Popert, also known as Carlotta Ida Popert, was a German-Roman portrait and genre painter and etcher. She trained under Friedrich Preller the Elder and Carl Gehrts in Düsseldorf, then furthered her studies under Pio Joris in Rome, Nicolò Barabino in Florence, and Léon Bonnat in Paris. After travelling extensively through the Orient, England, the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain, she settled in Rome around 1890, using her inherited family fortune to support her work, primarily in watercolour. She built the Villa Carlotta along the Tiber, but despite her charitable efforts, the property was seized by the Italian government after Italy entered the war in 1915, and she was expelled. Returning in 1919, Popert resumed painting in Rome, though she never recovered her villa or art collection. Her painting Praying Women of Bethlehem is widely regarded as one of her finest works. From 1883, she exhibited in Rome, Turin, Florence, and Venice. Her book Sardinian Types and Costumes, featuring her etchings, was published in 1901 after a trip to Sardinia in 1889, and was highly praised. A lifelong friend of John Singer Sargent, Jules Massenet dedicated Les Érinnyes to her. Popert died in Rome. | ||||||||||
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