Giovanni Stefano Robatto

Giovanni Stefano Robatto (1649 – 6 October 1731) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.

The Holy Family, c. 1680, Birmingham Museums Trust

Biography

Born at Savona, he studied at Rome under Carlo Maratta. He was employed painting for churches in Genoa, among his works, a St. Francis receiving the Stigmata for the church of the Cappucini. He afterwards abandoned himself to a fatal passion for gaming, and his later works are hasty and careless.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 389.