Life

Reproduced by kind permission of Sheila Mazzotti.

Pellegrino was born in Coreglia, Lucca, Tuscany in 1793/5.

Sometime in the 1810s he settled in Norwich, Norfolk, U.K. He started a family there, but probably left Norwich in about 1840.

It is unclear where he resided in the 1840s, but he spent some time in Wisbech, because he gave some of his work to Wisbech Museum in 1842.

In 1850 Pellegrino appeared in a trade directory in Ely and in 1851 he was a lodger in Cambridge.

By 1854, he was back in Wisbech, because he made a bust of Nelson, inscribed 'Wisbech 1854'. In 1860 he made a bust in Lynn. On the 1861 and 1871 census returns he was a lodger in Wisbech. Pellegrino died at the workhouse in Wisbech on 22/10/1879.