Giovanni Battista Cassevari

Giovanni Battista Cassevari (1789–1876) was an Italian painter, born in Genoa. As a boy, he attended the Academy in Florence and studied under Pietro Benvenuti. After having taken part in the wars of 1813-14, and been present at the battle at Paris, he returned to Turin and Genoa, and in 1824 went to Florence and Rome. In these cities he painted a great number of miniature portraits. The portraits in oil afterwards executed by him in England are painted in the style of the Italian and Dutch masters. Richard Buckner and Crispini (painter) were among his pupils. Cassevari painted a 'Madonna and Child' for the church at Frosini.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume I: A-K). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 247.