Edoardo Raimondi Biography
Parma 1837 - Reggio nell'Emilia 1919 Son of the painter C. Raimondi Toschi, he distinguished himself above all as a landscape painter, close to the lessons of A. Fontanesi (Paesaggio padano, Parma, coll. Chamber of Commerce), and as the author of genre paintings and of military subjects (Battle of Villafranca, Parma, Stuard Art Gallery). In the 1960s he lived in Milan (in the Crescioni house), where he made his debut at the Brera exhibitions with canvases linked to episodes of the war campaigns of 1859-1860 (1861, The arrival of an vanguard of the Royal Piedmont Regiment, Effetto d' dawn in the Neapolitan brigandage scene, A rustic courtyard), followed by works of oriental subjects (1864, I Turcos a Robecchetto, La Quiete, Costumi del Cairo). In the following years he alternated paintings inspired by the wars of Independence with realist subjects taken in Liguria (Il merciajuolo di Chiavari, exhibited in Genoa in 1868), in the Roman countryside (I butteri-Roman countryside-morning, Surroundings of Rome-i cavallari, exhibited in Genoa in 1879), in the surroundings of Parma (The herdsmen and II Viatico - surroundings of Parma - study from life, sent to Milan in 1872) and on the Po (Rivieraschi del Po fleeing the flood of December 1872, exhibited in Naples in 1877; October morning on the banks of the Po, exhibited in Rome in 1883). There are also numerous paintings related to life in the fields (The Gleaners in the Surroundings of Pisa, The Turkey Herdsman, exhibited in Genoa in 1877). He was assiduous at exhibitions until 1894; in 1910 some of his Venetian studies appeared at the Exhibition of the Society of Fine Arts in Florence.
