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