Giovanni Ottavio Rappetti
Giovanni Ottavio Rappetti (Turin, 1849 - 1931) was an Italian painter, mainly of genre subjects. Biography. As a young man, he worked for the documenting in 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"; ; 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.