| Margherita Caffi | |
| Birth Name: | Margherita Volo |
| Birth Date: | 1650 |
| Birth Place: | Milan, Italy |
| Death Place: | Milan, Italy |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Field: | Painting |
| Movement: | Still Life |
| Spouse: | Ludivico 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. 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. She died in Milan at the age of sixty.[1]
There are a number of unsigned paintings depicting "still lives with flowers", previously attributed to Francesco Guardi, known as Pseudo-Guradi Maestro di Fiori Guardeschi, but now postulated as likely the work of either Francesco Duramano, Carlo Henrici, Elisabetta Marchioni, and/or Margherita.[2] [3] [4]
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