Guglielmo Lochis

Count Guglielmo Lochis (1789 – 25 July 1859) was an Italian nobleman, politician, art collector and art connoisseur.

Born in Mozzo into a family which had been active in Bergamo since the 16th century and which had held the title of count since the 18th century, he entered public life in 1816 as a member of the Lombard-Venetian guard during the visit to Bergamo of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor. In 1835 Bergamo's Accademia Carrara made him its auction commissioner; he also served as the city's podestà from 1842 to 1848, with his resignation from the latter role triggered by the Revolutions of 1848. He died in Bergamo.

Collection

Lochis acquired several artworks in the 1820s, gathering a collection of around 500 works in Villa delle Crocette in Mozzo, which became a stop on the tourist-trail in the area. Two-thirds of the collection was left to the city as the ''Fondo Lochis'' on the stipulation that these works remain in the Villa, with the rest remaining with the family or sold off on the art market; the ''Portrait of a Scholar'' or ''Portrait of a Gentleman of the Albani Family'' by Giovanni Battista Moroni, for example, is now in a private collection in Berlin. The city found the will's condition hard to meet and so in 1866 renegotiated with Guglielmo's heir Carlo to allow the works to be hung in a room in the Accademia Carrara with the Lochis coat of arms over the door.

The works which went to the Accademia included:
* ''Madonna and Child'' by Jacopo Bellini
* ''Madonna and Child'' by Giovanni Bellini
* ''Pietà'' by Giovanni Bellini
* ''Madonna and Child with Saints'' by Palma Vecchio
* ''Madonna and Child'' by Carlo Crivelli
* ''Madonna and Child'' by Cosmè Tura
* ''Madonna del Latte'' by Ambrogio da Fossano
* ''Saint Ambrose Meeting the Emperor Theodosius'' by Ambrogio da Fossano
* '' Holy Family with Saint Catherine of Alexandria'' by Lorenzo Lotto
* ''Nativity of Mary with Saints James, Anthony Abbot, Andrew, Dominic, Lawrence and Nicholas of Bari'' by Vittore Carpaccio
* '' Portrait of a Gentleman'' by Altobello Melone
* ''Saint Sebastian'' by Raphael
* ''Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist'' by Moretto da Brescia
* ''The Crucified Christ with a Devotee'' by Moretto da Brescia
* ''Adoration of the Christ Child'' by Bernardino Luini
* ''Madonna and Child'' by Titian
* ''Orpheus and Eurydice'' by Titian
* ''Madonna and Child Triptych'' by Gerolamo Giovenone
* ''Saint Nicholas of Tolentino'' by Giovanni Battista Moroni
* ''Portrait of a Child of the Redetti Family'' by Giovanni Battista Moroni
* ''Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata'' by El Greco
* ''Portrait of Ulisse Aldovrandi'' by Agostino Carracci
* ''Portrait of a Child'' by Diego Velázquez
* ''Madonna del Sassoferrato'' by Fra Galgario
* ''Portrait of Francesco Maria Bruntino'' by Fra Galgario
* ''The Grand Canal at Palazzo Balbi'' by Canaletto
* ''Saint Maximus and Saint Oswald'' by Giovan Battista Tiepolo
* ''View'' by Francesco Guardi
* ''Il ridotto'' by Pietro Longhi

References

Bibliography

* Giovanni Lochis, ''La pinacoteca e la villa Lochis alla Crocetta di Mosso presso Bergamo'', Arnaldo Forni editore, 1858.
* G. Brambilla, ''Guglielmo Lochis patrizio bergamasco e conoisseur europeo'', Atti dell'Ateneo di Scienze Lettere ed Arti di Bergamo, 1995–6, pp. 393–410.
* G. Brambilla Ranise, ''Una vita, una collezione, un tradimento. Guglielmo Lochis (1789–1859) e la sua raccolta'', Bergomum, 2005, p. 225–288.

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Italian art collectors
1789 births
1859 deaths
Politicians from the Province of Bergamo
Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo