Alessandro Durini, 6th Earl of Monza (1818-1892) was an Italian noble and painter active in his native

Milan Milan ( , , Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city h ...

, mainly painting in watercolor, depicting historical and genre subjects.

Biography

Born to an aristocratic family from Milano which are the Counts of Monza, a still extant cultural foundation is named after him. He trained under

Luigi Sabatelli Luigi Sabatelli (21 February 1772 – 29 January 1850) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, active in Milan, Rome, and his native city of Florence. Biography He studied in his native city and in Rome. In 1803, with the reorganizatio ...

at the

Brera Academy The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera ("academy of fine arts of Brera"), also known as the or Brera Academy, is a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy. It shares its history, and its main building, with the Pinacoteca di ...

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short biography.

References

1818 births 1892 deaths 19th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Milan Italian genre painters Brera Academy alumni 19th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-19thC-stub