Margherita Caffi

Margherita Caffi (1650 – 20 September 1710) was an Italian painter of still lifes of flowers and fruit. She was born Margherita Volo, in Milan to Francesco Volo (a still-life painter himself) and his wife, Veronica.^[1] In 1668, she married Ludivico Caffi (also a still-life painter) in Cremona. She settled in Piacenza in 1670. She is known to have had at least four children.^[1] She died in Milan at age 60.^[1]

Still-Life with a Vase of Flowers by Margherita Caffi, private collection

References

1. Gaze, Delia (1997). Dictionary of Women Artists: Artists, J-Z. Taylor & Francis. pp. 339–340.

• 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. 208.