Carlo Antonio Tavella

Landscape with Saint John the Baptist

Carlo Antonio Tavella (1668–1738) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa.

Biography

Tavella was born in Milan to a Genoese merchant, Domenico, and died in Genoa. He was initially the pupil of the painter Giuseppe Merati, then later of a painter by the name of Johann Gruembroech or Greuenbrech, also called il Solfarolo. Later in 1695, Tavella worked in the studio with the Dutch painter Pieter Mulier II (Molyn) called Cavalieri Tempesta or il Tempesta. Worked as a landscape painter for Alessandro Magnasco and Domenico and Paolo Piola. He helped decorate the Palazzo Franchi. Tavella had daughters by of the name of Teresa and Angiola (who was herself a painter). Among his other pupils was Niccolo Micone, known locally as Lo Zoppo.

Sources

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 554.
• Soprani, Raffaello (1769). Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, ed. Delle vite de' pittori, scultori, ed architetti genovesi; Tomo secundo scritto da Carlo Giuseppe Ratti. Stamperia Casamara in Genoa, dalle Cinque Lampadi, con licenza de Superiori; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Feb 2, 2007. pp. 198–207.