He was born in Pavia and was the brother of the mathematician Luigi Cremona.
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On returning to Milan, he joined the Società della Confusion – which took institutionalised form as the Circolo degli Artisti in 1875 – together with Tranquillo Cremona and Eleuterio Pagliano.