Giovanni Ottavio Rappetti
Italian painter (1849-1931)
Giovanni Ottavio Rappetti (Turin, 1849 - 1931) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects.
Biography
As a young man, he was employed in documenting through drawings the collections – including beetles, flowers, and fossils – of the Museum of Natural History of Turin. He later studied at the Accademia Albertina under Gamba, Gastaldi and Gilli
At Milan, in 1883, he exhibited: Al convento; in 1884 at Turin, he exhibited another copy of the same painting: Una partita a tarocchi: In val Salici; Una bella giornata; Da Celle. practiced the then novel technique of chromolithography, including works such as La Famiglia di Carlo I; I facsimili Ciardi; and Lancerotto. He painted a Portrait of the Queen Margherita for the Princess Laetitia. Other genre works included Idillio; Vicinanze di Condove; Triste giornata; Fervet opus; and In cerca del Papa. He taught himself many languages, and taught German at the Circolo Filologico.
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