Achille Peretti (artist)
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Born1853 or 1857
Italy
Died1923
Chicago, United States
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| Born | 1853 or 1857 Italy |
| Died | 1923 Chicago, United States |
Achille Peretti was an Italian-American painter.
Peretti was born in 1853 or 1857 in Italy. He attended art school in Rome and Milan's Accademia di Belle Arti. Peretti immigrated to the United States in the early 1880s and settled in New Orleans in 1884, where he stayed through his last year. He became an American citizen in 1890 and died in Chicago in 1923.[1]
Peretti painted in various formats and decorated churches in the Gulf Coast, New Orleans, and Chicago.[1]
