Alessandro Nelli (Rome, 28 January 1842 – Russia?, after 1897) was an Italian entrepreneur. Nelli was the founder of the Fonderia Nelli (Nelli Foundry), which was the leading sculpture foundry in Rome from 1880 to 1900. He participated to national, international and universal exhibitions, winning several prizes and medals. He exported more than 100 pieces to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Nelli made artistic bronzes for several Italian and foreign artists, including several American artists.
Works Odoardo Tabacchi, Monument to Arnaldo da Brescia, Brescia, Piazzale Arnaldo Ettore Ferrari, Monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II, Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice William Wetmore Story, Monument to William Prescott, Boston William Wetmore Story, Monument John Marshall, US Supreme Court, Washington D.C. Pius Welonsky, Gladiator, National Museum, Warsaw Franklin Simmons, Monument to John Logan, Logan Circle, Washington, D.C., 1892–1901 , Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi, Brescia Reliquary of St Adamo Abate, Guglionesi Edward Müller, The Torch, Accademia di San Luca, Rome Ernesto Biondi, Monument to Manuel Montt and Antonio Varas, Santiago, Chile, 1900–1904 Ernesto Biondi, Saturnalia, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, RomeTeresa Sacchi Lodispoto, Sabrina Spinazzè: Ernesto Biondi: la scultura viva Giulio Tadolini, Equestrian monument to King Vittorio Emanuele II, 1890, Perugia Archivio della scultura. Vittorio Emanuele II, Giulio Tadolini Giulio Tadolini, Monument to Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield, 1893, Córdoba, Argentina Richard Henry Park, Monument to Vice President Thomas A. Hendricks, 1890, Indiana State House, Indianapolis, US Randolph Rogers, The last arrow, 1879–1880, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Carlo Filippo Chiaffarino, Monument to Count Canevaro, Zoagli, Genoa Pietro Costa, Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, 1881–1889, Turin Ettore Ferrari, Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, c. 1880, Venice Ettore Ferrari, Monument to the poet Ovidius, 1887, Constanța, Romania Giulio Monteverde, Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, 1888, Bologna Giulio Monteverde, Monument to King Victor Emmanuel II, 1889, Ferrara Giovanni Anderlini, Monument to Simón Bolívar, 1889, Guayaquil Eugenio Maccagnani, Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1889, Brescia Vincenzo Ragusa, Monument to Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1892, Palermo Augusto Rivalta, Monument to King Victor Emmanuel, 1893, Livorno Cesare Zocchi, Monument to Dante Alighieri, 1896, Trento Giovanni Ciniselli, Monument to marquiss Bernardo de Sá da Bandeira, 1884, Lisbon Felipe Moratilla, Monument to general José Prudencio Padilla, Riohacha Manuel Oms Canet, Monument to queen Isabella of Castilla, 1883, Madrid Eduardo Barrón González, Viriatus, 1883, Zamora Prosper d’Épinay, Paul et Virginie, Curepipe
References
Additional sources Angelo de Gubernatis, Dizionario di artisti italiani viventi, Firenze, 1906, p. 235. Thieme-Becker, Allgemeinesküntlerlexikon, p. 25, p. 385 E. Colle, A. Griseri, R. Valeriani, Bronzi decorativi in Italia: bronzisti e fonditori italiani dal Seicento all'Ottocento, Milano, Electa, 2001, pp. 42, 320–323, 386 . P. Coen, Il recupero del Rinascimento. Arte, politica e mercato nei primi anni di Roma capitale (1870–1911), Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo, 2020, pp. 177–187 .