Mylius Prize
# Mylius Prize

The Premio Mylius was an Italian prize for painting. It was established by the Austrian industrialist Heinrich Mylius [it] in 1841 and awarded by the Accademia di Brera in $Milan,^{:17}$ which at that time was under Habsburg rule. In 1856 there were two types of award, an annual prize of 700 Austrian lire for a painting in oils, and a biennial award of 1000 lire for fresco $work.^{:155}$ It was awarded until the outbreak of the Second World $War.^{:29}$

Among the recipients of the award were Salvatore Mazza (1856), Pietro Michis (1868), Vespasiano Bignami (1869), Giovanni Battista Ferrari (1870), Filippo Carcano (1878), Giovanni Beltrami [it], (1884) Amerino Cagnoni (1886), Francesco Filippini (1890), Egidio Riva (1902), Donato Frisia (1920) and Trento Longaretti $(1939).^{:29}$

