COGHETTI, FRANCESCO. — Painter, born in Bergamo on 20 July 1802, died in Rome on 21 April 1875. After studying under Diotti, he followed Camuccini in Rome and from then on belonged to the industrious group of nineteenth-century Roman fresco painters.
He shared with them a mastery of composition and a vigorous eloquence, even if often academic and theatrical in tone; in his colouring he displayed certain qualities inherited from his native land. In Rome he frescoed the villa and palace of Torlonia (later demolished). Other compositions of his decorated the vanished Teatro Apollo. For the theatres of Rimini and Spoleto he painted the curtains. Numerous were his religious compositions in churches in the Bergamo area, in Savona Cathedral, and in Rome (Condamna di s. Stefano, at S. Paolo). He was president of the Academy of S. Luca.