Cesare Bertolotti

He gained various stipends from the city from a legacy by Brozzoni, and went to Florence (1876–78), where he frequented the studio of Giuseppe Ciaranfi, In 1879, he moved to Milan, where he studied at the Brera with Bertini.

In 1880–81, he traveled to Rome where he worked with Maccari, and finally in 1882, spent time with Franz Seraph Lenbach in Munich.

He then returned to Brescia, where he helped found a society of artists called Arte in Famiglia (dissolved in 1930).

In 1915, he won the Prince Umberto with the painting Nella solenne tranquillità dei monti (In the solemn tranquility of mountains).

In 1889 he married Teresa Lancellotti, and his son Giuseppe, a captain of mountain artillery, was wounded on Monte Badenecche in November 1917 and died as a prisoner in Innsbruck in December.