Ernesto Pochintesta

Ernesto Pochintesta (Stradella, Lombardy, Italy, January 18, 1840 – Turin, January 13, 1892) was an Italian painter, active as a landscape artist and watercolor painter in a Realist style.

In 1873, Pochintesta invested and was involved in the restoration of the Castle of Issogne belonging to Vittorio Avondo.

In 1875–77, he travelled to Paris, where Stratta, Pasquini, Pollonera, and Calandra had moved to; here he was influenced by Camille Corot.

At Milan, in 1881, exhibited Un brutto incontro; at Turin, in 1884, Campagna ferrarese, at Venice, in 1887, another canvas titled: Arei campi.

[1] He married in 1887 a woman twenty years younger, however, because of failed investments, he died poor.