Influential then, forgotten since, remembered again: on Nino Costa

Ironically, for a man who threw in his lot with his English artist friends and sold almost exclusively to English patrons, Nino (Giovanni) Costa (1826-1903) is little known and woefully under-represented in English public collections. There are two paintings in the Ashmolean and two in the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath. Obviously he is appreciated by the circle of admirers and collectors of Etruscan landscape painting, the name adopted in 1883 by Costa and the group of English artists who were d