Bernardino Fergioni

Bernardino Vincenzo Fergioni (2 January 1674–1738), called Sbirretto, was an Italian painter of marine views and seaports, stated by Lanzi to have flourished in Rome about the year 1718. Adrien Manglard studied with Fergioni in Rome. Claude-Joseph Vernet, too, was welcomed in his atelier sometime after his arrival in Rome in 1732. Among his other pupils were Andrea Locatelli, and Paolo Anesi.

Biography Fergioni was born in Rome on 2 January 1674, although some dated sources mistakenly report his year of birth as 1675.

While virtually unknown today, Fergioni was appreciated by his contemporaries.

Fergioni experienced a modest financial success and a more consistent social one in his lifetime. His father bequeathed to him his furniture and about thirty paintings, together with the obligation of providing for his family via his up-and-down job as a painter (Fergioni was given the burden of providing for the family through le di lui industrie e con la di lui virtù e fatiche nella professione di pittore). On the other hand, Fergioni was awarded a Knight Cross by Pope Benedict XIII, which he "flaunted continuously."

Fergioni married Anna Maria Moscatelli on 14 December 1722. The marriage produced no offspring. Fergioni died in Rome in 1738.