Portrait of Giovan Battista Piatti

Giovanni Battista Piatti (1773-1838), benefactor of the male orphanage and of the Luogo Pio Trivulzio, specifying in his will that, despite having good relations with his brother, he does not make him a universal heir, but only a legate, because he is rich and childless, leaving 150,000 lire to the Maggiore Hospital. The assignment for the portrait, initially entrusted to Pietro Narducci, passes to Giuseppe Sogni, professor at the Accademia di Brera and established portraitist in the Milan of the time, author of other works for the hospital Picture Gallery, to which an unequal fee is paid because of his fame.