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Gaetano Giuseppe Faostino Meo

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Gaetano Giuseppe Faostino Meo

Birth
Italy
Death
16 Jan 1925 (aged 75–76)
England
Burial
Hampstead, London Borough of Camden, Greater London, England GPS-Latitude: 51.55525, Longitude: -0.2021694
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Gaetano Giuseppe Faostino Meo was an artists model and painter, associated with the Pre-Raphelites.Artists Meo modelled for included Simeon Solomon, William Blake Richmond, Lord Leighton, George Heming Mason, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and Edward Burne-Jones

Meo painted moasics in the dome of Debenham House to a design by Halsey Ricardo, the architect of the house. He also led a team of mosaicists in the installation of designs by Scottish artist/architect Robert Weir Schultz at St. Andrew's chapel in Westminster Cathedral.

Four paintings by Meo have been identified by the Public Catalogue Foundation as in public ownership in the United Kingdom. Three (Tooley's Farm, Looking towards London from the Heath and Wyldes Farm) are part of the collection of Camden Council, and Arundel Castle, West Sussex, Looking from the Back of the Railway Station is part of Eastbourne's Towner Gallery.
Gaetano Giuseppe Faostino Meo was an artists model and painter, associated with the Pre-Raphelites.Artists Meo modelled for included Simeon Solomon, William Blake Richmond, Lord Leighton, George Heming Mason, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and Edward Burne-Jones

Meo painted moasics in the dome of Debenham House to a design by Halsey Ricardo, the architect of the house. He also led a team of mosaicists in the installation of designs by Scottish artist/architect Robert Weir Schultz at St. Andrew's chapel in Westminster Cathedral.

Four paintings by Meo have been identified by the Public Catalogue Foundation as in public ownership in the United Kingdom. Three (Tooley's Farm, Looking towards London from the Heath and Wyldes Farm) are part of the collection of Camden Council, and Arundel Castle, West Sussex, Looking from the Back of the Railway Station is part of Eastbourne's Towner Gallery.

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In Loving Memory of
Agnes
Beloved Wife of
Gaetano Meo
Died March 9th 1921, Aged 72
Also
Little Bertie
Also of Gaetano Meo
who died 16 JAN 1925
Margarita Eldest Daughter of The Above
Died March 6th 1956 Aged 82



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