Giuseppe Barison

Barison found a patron in the aristocratic Anna De Rin, who placed him in apprenticeship with the painter Carl Haase (1820-1876) in Trieste, and then enrolled him in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.

Returning to Trieste in 1876, the next year he participated at the Esposizione di Belle Arti, with a canvas depicting Isabella Orsini and her Page, which gains him a two-year stipend from the city to study in Rome.

After Rome, he spent some years in Venice, where he was influenced by Giacomo Favretto, and exhibited with the Società Veneta Promotrice di Belle Arti from 1880 onward.

At the national exhibition of 1887, Barison was influenced by two paintings, Neapolitan Michele Cammarano's The Brawl (La Rissa), and Genoese Nicolò Barabino's Quasi oliva speciosa.

The First World War exiled Barison to the house of his son-in-law, the artist Roberto Amadi, in Pegli, Liguria where he stayed from 1915 to 1918, and continued painting land- and sea-scapes.