Lemmo Rossi-Scotti

Count Lemmo Cesare Rossi-Scotti (24 February 1848, in Perugia – 23 December 1926, in Rome)[1] was an Italian painter, mainly of battle scenes, in a late-Romantic style.

Among his masterworks are: Perrone a San Martino; Ultimi ora; and Una Ninfa nei boschi.

[2] In 1880 Exposition of Turin, in 1880, he sent: Carica delle guide a Mazambano (Battle of Solferino); Saroia!

In the 1883 Mostra of Rome, he displayed: Il colonnello Bolegno ferito nel caricare alla testa del 14° reggimento fanteria nella giornata di San Martino, e che trasportato dal suo cavallo cadde morto su un'altura di Roccoletto.

[4] He had been a member since the late 1880s of the Artists' society, based in Rome, of In Artes Libertas[5] As a young painter in Rome, he had his studio on Via Margutta, but once he had gained prominence and success, he was granted the title of Count of Montepetriolo, and bought a medieval castle outside Perugia, and it was transformed into a villa.