Guido Ricci
Guido Ricci was born in Casorate Primo in the province of Pavia in 1836. A pupil of Gaetano Fasinotti at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, he followed his teacher’s advice to paint landscapes from reality, en plein air in the countryside around Milan. From then on he devoted himself entirely to landscape painting.
He made his debut in 1860 at the Mantua Exhibition with La vita nei campi (life in the fields)and Il pascolo (the pasture). Six years later he exhibited the large canvas Pascolo alpestre (Alpine pasture) in Milan; it was exhibited again at the Permanente in 1900 and is today part of the collection of the Museo del Paesaggio.
He died in Gurone in the province of Varese in 1897.
A posthumous exhibition of about a hundred of the artist’s works was held in 1917 at the Famiglia Artistica in Milan.
In 1922 the artist’s descendents endowed the “permanent Guido Ricci prize”, awarded to a painting, preferably of a landscape, at the Exhibitions of the Brera Academy.
