Achille Vianelli (1803-1894): A Painter of Nostalgia Achille Vianelli, an Italian landscape painter of the Posillipo School, was born in Porto Maurizio, Italy, on December 21st, 1803. His father, Giovan Battista Vianelli, originally from Veneto, had married a Parisian and consequently changed his name to Vianelly or Viennelly and assumed French nationality, becoming Napoleon’s consular agent in Porto Maurizio. Achille kept his new sur…