Portrait of a Seated Gentleman, Reading; bottom right signed Ant.Brighenti di Clusone dip. and date 1845. Antonio Brighenti (1810-1893) carried out his entire career as a painter in his native Clusone (Bergamo), in contact with the rich artistic tradition of Bergamo. Trained under the direction of Giuseppe Diotti at the Carrara Academy of Bergamo, where he was a fellow student of Piccio, Trécourt, Coghetti etc., Brighenti was active in all the pictorial genres required by the lively local client, including the ecclesiastical one, but he is in the portrait that gave the best of his creative ability. The portraits of this painter offer us an extraordinary gallery of Bergamo characters