Joseph Fagnani

Giuseppe (Joseph) Fagnani was working in Naples in 1840, Paris 1842-44, Spain 1846, and Paris 1847. By 1849 he had emigrated to the United States and was working in Washington DC, where he painted portraits of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and President Fillmore. After several years in Europe, he settled permanently in New York City around 1865 and left for one year in 1866, when he painted a portrait of Samuel F.B. Morse in Washington, D.C. He died in New York City, May 22, 1873.