Silvio Poma [SEP] place of death
Silvio Poma
Silvio Poma (1840 in Trescore Balneario, Bergamo – 1932 in Turate, Como) was an Italian painter, mainly painting land and lake-side seascapes of the Lombardy lake district.
Military career.
Having served as a volunteer in the Second Italian War of Independence, Poma embarked on a military career by 1859-1860. In 1866, after contracting malaria, he finally retired from an army life. On his return to Milan, he worked in the studios of his fellow soldier-painters in
Carlo Pizzi
Carlo Pizzi (Lecco, Lombardy, 1842 – 1909) was an Italian painter, mainly of landscapes of his native Lombardy.
Born to a family of modest means, he studied at the Brera Academy, where he was a pupil of Gaetano Fasanotti, Ricciardi, and Raffaele Casnedi. As a landscape artist he was influenced by his fellow alumni, Eugenio Gignous, and Silvio Poma.
In 1872 to Milan, he sent: "Lungo l'Adda presso Brivio" and "La Molgora in Brianza";