Born in Rome and active in Naples, Augusto Lovatti painted various aspects of Capri, Sorrento, Amalfi, also Pompeian subjects, genre scenes, landscapes and seascapes.
Lovatti studied in Rome at the school of Cesare Maccari (1840-1919), then moving away from the capital, perhaps for reasons of a political nature, to move to live and work in Capri from the late 1980s.
Here, in the following years he tied himself to Antonino Leto (1844-1913) and to Bernando Hay (1864-1931), and met Charles Coleman (1807-1874) and Sir Frederic Leighton (1830-1896).
He moved frequently to Venice and from 1910 he went to Naples to participate in the exhibitions of 1911, 1912 and 1915.
Lovatti died in Capri in 1921.