Luigi Riccardi
Italian painter (1808–1877)
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Career
He was mainly a landscape and seascape painter. He trained under Giuseppe Bisi,[1] and was influenced by Massimo d'Azeglio.[2]
Luigi Riccardi joined Francesco Gonin in illustrating the 1840 second edition of Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed, drawing some famous landscapes.[3]
In 1865, he began teaching at the Brera; his work is mostly found in Milan, including at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna and Poldi-Pezzoli Museum. Eugenio Gignous was one of his pupils.