Clemente Ruta
Biography
Born at Parma, he first trained with a painter by the name of Ilario Spolverini,
{{cite book| first=Luigi| last=Lanzi| year=1828| title=History of Painting in Italy; From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century|volume=IV| editor = Thomas Roscoe (translator)| publisher= W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, Stationers' Hall, Ludgate Street; Original from Harvard University Library| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_IDAAAAYAAJ| author-link=Luigi Lanzi| pages= 140–141}} then later in Bologna with Carlo Cignani. He moved with the latter to Naples to work in the court of Charles of Bourbon. Ruta became blind in older life. He specialized in landscapes with pen and watercolour.
References
- {{cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title=Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical |volume=II L-Z |editor=Walter Armstrong |editor2=Robert Edmund Graves |page=429 | publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=London | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ }}
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