Gerolamo Induno

[2] His brother went back to painting, but he enlisted in a volunteer regiment led by General Giacomo Medici and fought against the French during their siege of Rome.

While engaged in the defense of the Villa del Vascello [it], near Porta San Pancrazio, he was stabbed with several bayonets and seriously wounded while leading a charge.

After a long recovery, he was able to return to Milan under the protection of Count Giulio Litta, a composer and avid art collector.

During the 1860s, in addition to his patriotic canvases, he created some large decorative works; including an allegory on Rome and Florence for the new Milano Centrale railway station (now demolished), and a curtain depicting the "Plebiscite [it] of Naples" for the theater in Gallarate.

[1] After unification had been achieved, his genre works tended to focus on scenes from the seventeenth century and he began to exhibit paintings on a wider variety of topics outside Italy, including Vienna (1873), Paris (1878), Antwerp (1885) and London (1888).