Cesare Poggi

Cesare Poggi (1803–1859) was an Italian painter, active in the Neoclassic style of grand manner history depiction, mainly around his native city of Milan. He was a pupil of Luigi Sabatelli, but after 1824 studied in Venice and Rome. He died at Milan, where he became a member of the Academy of Painters.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 302. 

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