Biografie von Pietro ANCORA (XIX)

Birth place: Italy

Addresses: Philadelphia, from c.1800 on

Profession: Drawing master, religious & still life painter, proprietor of art gallery

Exhibited: PAFA and Artists' Fund Society (1829-43)

Comments: Associated with Bell & Ancora's art gallery in 1819. His pupils included John Neagle and D.H. Strother.

Sources: G&W; Brown and Brown; Rutledge, PA; Phila. CD 1830; Phila. BD 1838; Thieme-Becker (states that Ancora was at Naples in 1805, but he is listed in the Phila. CD that year).