Giuseppe Molteni (Affori,Milan, 1800 – Milan, 1867) was an Italian painter.
Forced to abandon his studies at theBrera Academy for financial reasons, Molteni took up the restoration of ancient paintings as a pupil ofGiuseppe Guizzardi in Bologna. On his return to Milan, he soon became one of the most sought-after restorers of the day, a consultant to the Louvre and the British Museum as well as the leading collectors and connoisseurs inMilan and Europe as a whole. He also devoted his energies to painting.
In 1828 that he inaugurated a genre of portraiture characterised by the meticulous depiction of sumptuous costumes and settings, which proved an extraordinary success and brought him into direct competition withFrancesco Hayez. The period spent at the court inVienna in 1837 to paint the portrait ofEmperor Ferdinand I led to an appreciation ofBiedermeier painting and friendship with the painterFriedrich von Amerling, and the style ofJohann Friedrich Overbeck.[1] A switch to genre painting came in 1837 with scenes of contemporary everyday life that proved an immediate success with the public and critics. Molteni’s regular participation in the Brera exhibitions slackened in the 1850s and ceased when he was appointed curator of the Academy’s gallery in 1854 and stopped painting altogether.
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