Portrait of Dr. Franco Fustinoni prescribing a treatment based on medicinal plants.
Painting by Antonio Brighenti (Clusone 1810-93), datable to around 1840, oil on canvas of cm. 67 x 58.
Antonio Brighenti pursued his career as a painter in his native Clusone (Bergamo), in contact with the rich artistic tradition of Bergamo.
Trained under the direction of Giuseppe Diotti at the Carrara Academy in Bergamo, Brighenti practiced all the pictorial genres required by the lively local clientele, including the ecclesiastical one, but it is in portraiture that he gave the best of his creative ability.
The portraits of this painter offer us an extraordinary gallery of Bergamasque characters around the mid-nineteenth century, of all social classes, simple and natural, never stereotyped, always captured with Orobic realism, gentle irony, sincere psychological rendering.
The painting is contained in a beautiful, contemporary, gilded cove frame.
