Non risulta che abbia visitato la Gran Bretagna. Comunque, nel 1874, aderì alla Società Artistica fondata dal pittore Robert Spranger a Firenze, che mirava ad attirare una clientela anglosassone di passaggio. Forse proprio in quell’ambito Vinea si legò al figlio del poeta inglese Walter Savage Landor, Henry, un esploratore e artista anche lui. Dal 1877, espose regolarmente in Inghilterra, soprattutto tramite Tolfrey, tra l’altro agente anche di Andreotti, Bechi, Bortignoni e Chierici.

There is no evidence that he visited Great Britain. However, in 1874, he joined the Società Artistica founded in Florence by Robert Spranger, which attracted a visiting Anglo-Saxon clientele. Perhaps it was in this social ambit that Vinea formed a friendship with the son of the poet Walter Savage Landor, Henry, an explorer and artist himself. As from 1877, he exhibited regularly in England, especially through Tolfrey, who also acted as agent for Andreotti, Bechi, Bortignoni and Chierici.

Armytage F.W., Brown J.J., Cremetti Eugène, Forbes James Staats, Gresham James, Hollender Count Maximilian, Landor J.Walter Savage, MacGeorge B.B., Tolfrey T. e Samuel, Tooth Arthur, Wallis Thomas, Weinberg I.Julius, Wood Thomas

40a, Barclay Road, Fulham, Londra (1877, 1878, 1879, 1881, 1882:  c/o T. Tolfrey)

Glasgow (1888), Londra (1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1888, 1890, 1891, 1895, 1897, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1908, 1909, 1917)

s.a., Art in Continental States, in “The Art Journal”, 1874, p. 48.

C. Heath Wilson, Notes from Italy, in “The Academy”, 12 dicembre 1874, p. 642.

s.a., Notes from Abroad, in “The Art Journal”, 1875, p. 79.

C.W. Heath Wilson, Fine Art. Notes from Florence, in “The Academy”, vol. IX, 19 febbraio1876, p. 180.

W.M. Rossetti, Fine Art. The Royal Academy Exhibition. Third Notice, in “The Academy”, vol. XI, 2 giugno 1877, p. 496.

W.M. Rossetti, Fine Art. The Royal Academy Exhibition. Second Notice, in “The Academy”, vol. XIII, 25 maggio 1878, p. 471.

s.a., The Royal Academy Exhibition, in “The Art Journal”, vol. XIII, settembre 1878, p. 178.

s.a., Pictures of the Year- IV, in “The Magazine of Art”, vol. II, 1879, p. 219.

J. Jackson Jarves, Modern Italian Painting and Painters, in “The Art Journal”, 1880, pp. 261-262.

s.a., The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, in “The Art Journal”, 1882, p. 238.

s.a., The Royal Academy (Fourth Notice), in “The Athenaeum”, 27 maggio 1882, p. 674.

s.a., Francesco Vinea, A Bit of Humour, in “The Magazine of Art”, vol. VII, 1884, pp. 64, 65, ripr., 66.

s.a., Mendoza’s, King Street, St James’s, in “The Magazine of Art”, vol. VII, maggio 1884, p. xxxi.

s.a., Art Notes, in “The Illustrated London News”, 24 maggio 1884, p. 506.

red., The Art Sales of 1887, in “The Art Journal”, 1887, p. 337.

T. Carew Martin, Introduction, in “The Italian Exhibition in London. 1888. The Official Art Catalogue”, Londra 1888, p. xix.

L. Chirtani, Gli artisti italiani a Londra, in “Ricordo della Esposizione Italiana Londra 1888. Numero speciale dell’Illustrazione Italiana”, Milano 1888, p. 19.

J. Walter Savage Landor, Francesco Vinea, in “The Art Review”, 1890, vol. I, n.1, pp. 76-79.

A.H. Millar, The Collection of I.Julius Weinberg, in “The Art Journal”, 1898, p. 16.

A. Rollins Willard, History of Modern Italian Art, Londra, New York e Bombay, 1898.

s.a., Fine Arts: Minor Exhibitions, in “The Athenaeum”, 1 aprile 1899, p. 406.

A. Graves, A Dictionary of Artists who have Exhibited Works at the Principal London Exhibitions from 1870 to 1893, Londra 1901 (ristampa 1973), ad vocem.

A. Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts. A complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, Londra 1905, vol. VIII (ristampa 1970), ad vocem.

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Page at a Window, The Cooper Gallery, Barnsley.

Two Women on a Terrace (1899), Bury Art Museum, Greater Manchester.