Career
Born and died in Finale Ligure in Italy. From Cadiz, he followed a patron who had been reassigned to Madrid, soon he traveled to Lisbon where he worked for four years, then back to Genoa. In Genoa, his former master, Piola, was impressed with his skills.
He was known for portrait painting and made reproductions of master paintings by Titian and others he had seen in Madrid.
Foreign the parish church of Finale he painted copies of major canvases for the chorus. His major pupils were Giuseppe Folco, Giuseppe Piuma, and Giacomo Grana.
