Niccolò Carissa
Italian painter
Niccolò Carissa (born 1730, date of death unknown) was an Italian painter who produced several still-life paintings of flowers, vegetables, and birds. He worked in Rome and Naples.
References
Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 208.
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