Giovanni Ottavio Rappetti

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[http://www.museotorino.it/resources/pdf/books/25/files/assets/downloads/page0233.pdf Augusta Taurinorum; Torino Illustrata nelle sue Cose e nei suoi Cittadini: i viventi pittore] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219022443/http://www.museotorino.it/resources/pdf/books/25/files/assets/downloads/page0233.pdf |date=2013-12-19 }}; by Ernesto Marini, Editore proprietario, Genoa, 1901, page 215-216Biography hosted by Museo Torino.

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,[https://books.google.com/books?id=Zz0bAAAAYAAJ Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti], by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, Page 405-406. including works such as La Famiglia di Carlo I; {{lang|it|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.Augusta Taurinorum biography

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