Francesco Hayez was an Italian painter. He is considered one of the leading artists of Romanticism in mid-19th-century Milan, and is renowned for his grand historical paintings, political allegories,
Self-Portrait at the age of 78 in 1869
Laokoon, 1812, Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera
Pietro Rossi, 1818–1820, Milan, priv. col.
The Last Kiss of Romeo and Juliet, 1823, Tremezzo, Villa Carlotta
Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli was an Italian art collector. He is known for his extensive collection now kept in Italy's first private museum, the Museo Poldi Pezzoli.
Portrait of Count Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli painted by Francesco Hayez, 1851
Arms of the Poldi Pezzoli Family
Portrait of Giuseppe Bertini depicting Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli in the year of his untimely death
This picture shows the Black room of the Poldi Pezzoli Museum before the 1943 bombardment