Domenico Induno was an Italian

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 painter, originally a goldsmith.

He was born and died in Milan

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, and studied in the Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, as well as under Luigi Sabatelli

Luigi Sabatelli

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 and at Rome

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. He tried successively the Neoclassicism

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 and Romantic

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 schools, but afterwards settled down to depict popular life at Milan. In 1848 he took part with the Revolution, and had in consequence to flee to Switzerland

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. Thence he passed to Tuscany

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, and did not return home until 1859. His brother Gerolamo Induno

Gerolamo Induno

Gerolamo Induno was an Italian painter.-Biography:Gerolamo Induno studied at the Brera Academy in Milan from 1839 to 1846 and took part in the Cinque Giornate uprising in 1848. The ensuing Austrian repression caused him to take refuge with his brother and fellow painter Domenico at Astano in...

 was also a painter. Domenico married the sister of the Swiss painter Angelo Trezzini

Angelo Trezzini

Angelo Trezzini was an Italian painter.-Biography:Enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts from 1844 to 1846, Trezzini served his pictorial apprenticeship in the studio of the Induno brothers, under the guidance of Domenico, his brother-in-law, and in close contact with Gerolamo, his comrade in...

. Domenico often painted patriotic canvases, in a style indebted both to Ingres

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 and Francesco Hayez

Francesco Hayez

Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter, the leading artist of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories and exceptionally fine portraits.-Biography:...

. Among his paintings are:

• The Beggars.
• The Conflagration.
• The Despatch.
• The Smugglers.
• The Soldier's Tear.
• The Crown of Roses.
• Samuel and David.

Partial anthology

• http://www.antiquars.com/Pittura800/Romanticismo/IndunoD.htm