Carlo Innocenzo Carlone or Carloni (1686–1775)

• Was an Italian painter and engraver.
• He was active especially in Germany.
• He was a native of Scaria, near Como, in Lombardy.
• He was the son of a sculptor, but he preferred painting, and was placed under the care of Giulio Quaglio.
• He subsequently trained also with Giovanni Battista Colomba.
• He afterwards studied at Venice and at Rome, with Francesco Trevisani until he was 23 years of age, when he visited Germany.
• In Germany he has left works in oil and in fresco at Ludwigsburg, Passau, Linz, Breslau, Prague, and Vienna.
• He died at Como.
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