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Pietro Ayres (November 9 1794- Turin June 11 1878) was an Italian painter mostly of portraits in the Piedmont.As a young man he left in 1812 to fight for the Napoleonic armies in its disastrous entry into Russia. Upon the restoration of the House of Savoy he exiled himself to Rome for 14 years. He then briefly traveled to Savigliano and then to Turin.

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