In 1861 he enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence under the guidance of Enrico Pollastrini and Stefano Ussi. He devoted himself to oil, watercolors but also frescoes, painting landscapes, portraits, female figures, genre scenes, historical scenes and still lifes with historical scenarios especially from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In his works he blended a certain technical precision on Impressionist territories. As an illustrator he worked for Renato Fucini illustrating the story Sweet memories in Neri's Veglie (ed. 1890) [1].

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Federico Andreotti photographed by Mario Nunes Vais