Eugenio Bosa Biography
Venice 1807 - 1875 A pupil of his father Antonio, a sculptor, he initially followed in his father's footsteps by attending sculpture courses at the Academy of Venice. From the 1930s he turned to painting with works inspired by popular life, perhaps driven by his knowledge of the contemporary lithographic production of GB Bison. With these themes he presented himself at academic exhibitions in 1838 (Girl with a demijohn of wine, The widow of the lagoons, The oboe player, Bigolante reading a love song, The watermelon seller, The good old woman), in 1840 (The lost terno, The improviser on the Riva degli Schiavoni) and in 1842 (A Monday at the Lido). Linked to anecdote and without pretensions to social messages, his works were widely welcomed by clients of different origins and caliber: the collector G. Treves, for whom he painted The Fish Market in 1836; the Treviso merchant S. Giacomelli, for whom he carried out the lottery draw in Piazza San Marco (Treviso, Bailo Civic Museum), the Duchess of Berry who purchased a family of fishermen. In the Revoltella Museum in Trieste there is Eugenio Bosa's Pray for the Soul and in the Civic Museum of Padua there are, among others, an Old Sailor with a Child warming himself at a brazier and the Cobbler surrounded by his family.
