Giuseppe Riva (4 November 1834 in Ivrea – 10 November 1916) was an Italian lawyer and painter, known for portraits, historical paintings, and landscapes.
He was a resident of Milan. One of his masterworks was ''While reading a memorial plaque for the
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Mary Stuart'', sent to the Exhibition of Fine Arts at Turin in 1883. To the same exhibition in 1887, he sent ''Ultimi istanti di Cola di Rienzi, last Tribune of Rome''. In 1872 at the Milan Exposition, he displayed, several half-figure portraits. At the 1883 Rome Exposition, he displayed ''Two Shepherdesses, an Idyll''. Another painter of the same name was active in Bergamo and Rome (1861–1941).
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1834 births
1916 deaths
Italian genre painters
Italian landscape painters
19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Milan
20th-century Italian painters
19th-century Italian male artists
20th-century Italian male artists
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