Ottavio Leoni (1578–1630)

• Was an Italian painter and printmaker.
• He is sometimes also referred to as the Cavaliere Ottavio, il Padovano, il Padovanino or Cavaliere Padovano.
• He was born in Rome.
• First trained with his father, Lodovico Leoni.
• He became a member, and later president, of the Accademia di San Luca and a Cavalieri of the Order of Christ, on which occasion he presented the church of the Academy the Martyrdom of St. Martina.
• Ottavio Leoni was also the engraver of a set of portraits of painters.
• His portrait of Michelangelo Merisi Caravaggio is the only documented portrait of the painter by another artist. 

• He died in Rome.

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