Giovan Battista Lelli [SEP] occupation
Giovan Battista Lelli
Giovan Battista Lelli (1828 –1898) was an Italian painter.
He was born in San Giovanni Bianco, in the Province of Bergamo, and died in Milan. He painted alpine landscapes of the lake region of North Italy. He was influenced by Gerolamo Induno and Silvio Poma. He was prolific in his output. At Turin, in 1880, he displayed: "Promontorio di Bellagio, Lago di Como" and "Pianura di Colico e Paese di San Maurizio"; in 1881 at Milan
the military campaign of 1859, Giovan Battista Lelli and Gerolamo Induno.
Artistic career.
He made his debut at the Esposizione di Belle Arti of the Brera of 1869 but received no official recognition until halfway through the following decade. A painting of a historical subject, "Macbeth and the Witches of Dunsinane wood", depicted in a Romantic natural setting, won the Mylius Prize of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1876. A landscape exhibited in Naples, "Da Malgrate a Lecco", at the Esposizione Nazionale