Piccinelli Loverini heirs;
private collection, Bergamo.

The nucleus presented below (lots 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161) it is closely linked to the events of the painter Ponziano Loverini (Gandino 1845-1929), who played an absolutely important role in the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Lombard and national painting. In 1880 he married Domenica Orsola Piccinelli, with whom he had four children: Florinda, Candida, Lorenzo and Antonia. But soon family life began to cause him great drama, since two of the four children died in infancy, causing him a great inner crisis. Everything got worse when, in 1895, his wife also passed away.But success was the other way around proportional to family affairs, so much so that in 1899 he received the prestigious position of professor and director of the Carrara Academy. Many were his pupils, among his pupils there were Giacomo Belotti, Luigi Cassani, Romualdo Locatelli and Ernesto Quarti Marchiò.He held this role until June 30, 1926 when, now in his eighties and with health problems, he tendered his resignation.Naturally, the link with the Piccinelli family bore truly remarkable fruit for Loverini, and the works presented here – several of which have also been published – demonstrate this, especially in the finely crafted portraits, in the years in which he shared the classrooms of the Carrara Academy with his colleague Cesare Tallone.