Italian-born American painter Virgilio Tojetti (1851-1901) was born in Rome, 1851.
He was an American visual artist who studied with his father, the painter Domenico Tojetti, and in Paris with Gérôme and Bouguereau.
In 1870 he immigrated to America and spent much of the rest of his life living and working in San Francisco and New York City.
He exhibited with the Boston Art Club, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, National Academy of Design and the Brooklyn Art Association.
Virgilio Tojetti | Sleeping Baby, 1885 | Boston Public Library