Giuseppe Mattia Borgnis
Born in 1701.
Died in 1761.
Giuseppe Mattia Borgnis was a painter from the Vigezzo Valley. Trained in Bologna and Venice, he emigrated to Paris in 1752 before settling in West Wycombe, near London, in 1755. His work focuses on sacred and mythological scenes.
Notable among his achievements are late Baroque frescoes in the parish church of Saint Bernard, as well as in the Chapel of Saint John the Baptist and on the façades of the Palazzi Pedrazzini in Campo Valle Maggia, executed between 1731 and 1749. He also contributed to the decoration of the Church of the Assunta in Cimalmotto in 1749.