Riccardo Pasquini
Riccardo Pasquini (Turin, 1849 - Belbey, France, 1937) was an Italian painter. He attended the Accademia Albertina, and alongside Carlo Stratta, became a pupil of Antonio Fontanesi. He is described as an excellent painter of animals. He often painted small canvases. Along with Stratta and Carlo Pollonera, he traveled to Paris where he worked under Thomas Couture. At the 1870 Promotrice in Turin, he exhibited "La Sera", "un cantuccio della Stalla", and "Il primo solco". At the 1871 Promotrice he displayed "Schezzo dal vero", "I SS martiri", "Il passero di Lesbia", a first study of "Lungo Dora", and "December  (Vanchiglia). At the 1889 Turin Exposition, he displayed: Il lavoro pel bimbo"; "Prime affezioni"; "Vita rustica"; and "Primavera, lungo Dora". And at the 1884: "Occupazioni invernali"; "La vera pace"; "L'ora di mangiare"; "Portrait d'uomo" ; "Lontano dalla politica"; and "Casolare rustico". At the 1886 Milan Exposition, he sent "Verso sera". Stella lists his last entries in Exhibitions in 1889; his increased religiosity prompted him to become a priest, and function as a secretary to the Bishop of Novara, but still engaged in painting.