Fra Galgario (4 March 1655 – December 1743), born Giuseppe Vittore Ghislandi, and also called Fra Vittore del Galgario, was an Italian painter, mainly active in Bergamo as a portraitist during the Rococo or late-Baroque period.
He was born in Bergamo to an artist father. Initially he entered the studio of Giacomo Cotta, then Bartolomeo Bianchi, and finally the studio of Sebastiano Bombelli in Venice of the 1690s. He also reported trained with the German portrait artist Salomon Adler in Milan.
In 1702, he entered the religious life in the Order of the Minims of the Monastery of Galgario, in Bergamo. He assumed the name of the saint for whom the monastery is named. He was elected a member of the Milanese Accademia Clementina in 1717.
He is said to blend the attention to colorism and glamour that captivates Renaissance-Baroque portraiture of Venice, with the realism of Milanese art such as that of Moroni. Among his pupils were Paolo Bonomino, Cesare Femi, and Pietro Gualdi (18th century painter).
Giovane con bicchiere di vino e natura morta con pane e cipollaGiovane con turbanteRagazzo col cappello piumato (L’Allegrezza)
Count Giovanni Battista VailettiAcademia Carrara, BergamoPortrait of Francesco Maria BruntinoPortrait of Advocate Giacomo Battamni de'BazniPortrait of G. Secco SuardoPortrait of Count Galeatius Secco Suardo (1681-1733)Portrait of the Gentleman of Finardi's House' (1710)Gentlewoman (around 1710)Luigi Koelliker collection:Portrait of Gian Domenico Tassi (between 1710-15)Portrait of Clara Benaglio Finardi (1710), private collectionGiovanni Secco Suardo and Servant (1711) Giovanni Secco SuardoGentlemanPortrait of Count Giovan Battista Vailetti (1720), Galleria dell'Accademia, VenicePortrait of a Young Girl, National Museum of Fine Arts, AlgiersPortrait of Count Andra Asperti With His SonPortrait of Count Bartolomeo Secco Suardo in ArmsPortrait of Count Filippo MarenziPortrait of Count Gerolamo Secco SuardoPortrait of Count Giovan Battista VailettiPortrait of Dottor BernardiPortrait of Marquess Giuseppe Maria Rota and Captain Antonio Brinzago da LodiPortrait of Marshal Matthias von der SchulenburgPortrait of Sculptor Andrea FantoniPortrait of the Advocate Giacomo Bettami de' BaziniPortrait of Bartolomeo ManganoniPortrait of Bertrama Daina de' ValsecchiPortrait of Carlo TintiPortrait of Domenico GhislandiPortrait of Elizabeth Piavana GhidottiPortrait of Young Sculptor, University of Arizona Art Museum, TucsonBust of Vitellio ImperatoreBust of a Poet Laureate
