MeMoMu_HOHI_013 INTERIOR OF THE FLORENTINE HOUSE IN VIA SAN ZANOBI NEAR PIAZZA INDIPENDENZA _ ANDREAS ANDERSEN 1894 / MANUEL MEHAU 2025

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Norwegian-born American artist Andreas Andersen's

1894 painting Interior with Hendrik Andersen and John Briggs Potter in Florence depicts his brother, sculptor Hendrik Andersen (left), aged 22, with American painter John Briggs Potter (right), aged 29. The three travelled and studied in Europe. Andreas Andersen, 25, at the time of the painting, portrayed his brother and Potter as they woke up in the bohemian interior of the Florentine house in Via San Zanobi near Piazza Indipendenza where the three companions had taken up residence. The work has been described as possibly the first publicly displayed painting of an unambiguously homosexual couple. Andreas Andersen, who was by all accounts, heterosexual, portrayed his brother and Potter in a (for the time) rather sensitive manner. Hendrik Andersen would meet author Henry James in 1899, and the two would have a long relationship. John Briggs Potter would later marry Ellen Sturgis Hooper and work as the Keeper of Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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