Download or read book Nerli written by Michael Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the Italian painter Girolamo Pieri Nerli, who spent the last two decades of the nineteenth century in Australia and New Zealand, and is best known as a teacher of Frances Hodgkins and Charles Conder and portraitist of the ailing Robert Louis Stevenson. Nerli painted a great variety of subjects in a wide range of styles and is associated with the Heidelberg School in Australia and with the introduction of Impressionism to the Antipodes. Though he returned to Europe, his most important work was done in the South Pacific and most of it remains here.