Guglielmo de Sanctis

Guglielmo de Sanctis (March 8, 1829 – 1911) was an Italian painter.

He was a pupil of Tommaso Minardi at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and wrote a biography about his teacher. He also spent some time in the studio of Cesare Marianecci in Florence.

Early in his career, he painted religious and historic themes, in a style highly influenced by his master's Purismo movement, an Italianate incarnation of the Nazarene movement. Later in life, he dedicated himself to the more profitable career as portraitist; among his subjects were King Umberto I of Italy and his wife Margherita of Savoy; the Emperor of Brazil; Napoleon Carlo Bonaparte (Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte?); the playwright Giacinto Gallina; Count Terenzo Mamiani; Antonio Rosmini; N. Tommasso; the art writer Pietro Selvatico; the politician Vincenzo Gioberti; the merchant Giovan Pietro Vieusseux; the diplomat Constatino Nigra; Gioacchino Rossini; and many prominent Italian aristocrat and fellow artists including Filippo Palizzi and Bernardo Celentano.

Among his religious paintings was a Visitation for the church of Guadalupa (1854), a Conference of St Vincenzo de' Paoli for the church of Santissima Trinità (1855) near Montecitorio, and frescoes for the church of San Paolo (1860) depicting St Paul's Sermon in the Synagogue and St Paul in Damascus. He also painted a Sermon of St Francesco di Sales for the cathedral of Porto Maurizio and biblical subjects for the Hospital of Santo Spirito e Fatebenefratelli in Rome.

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