Plinio Nomellini was an Italian painter. In 1885, he enrolled at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence to study painting. In 1886, he exhibited his art for the first time and in the following decades he regularly took part in exhibitions including the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1889. From 1899 onwards, he participated in every Venice Biennale until his death. His portraits, landscapes, allegories and genre scenes show characteristics of Impressionism and Symbolism. In 1889, Nomellini moved to Genoa. Because he sympathised with striking workers and depicted socially critical themes in his paintings, he was arrested in 1894 on suspicion of anarchism. However, he was acquitted in the trial that followed. In his later works, Nomellini tended to depict mysterious sceneries as well as brightly coloured excerpts of landscapes. Today, Nomellini's paintings feature mainly in museums in northern Italy. The self-portrait shown in the Uffizi, which Roland Schaul used as a model for this portrait, was donated to the museum by Nomellini's children in 1950.