Enrico Cavalli, born on November 5 1849, is the son of the painter Carlo Cavalli and Francesca Motta, who was greatly influenced by the teachings of Adolphe Monticelli.
Enrico Cavalli (5 November 1849  28 February 1919) was an Italian post-impressionist painter. Son of the painter Carlo Giuseppe Cavalli and Francesca Motta, he left Santa Maria Maggiore (Ossola Valley) for France when his family moved there in 1855. The outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War impelled the Cavalli family to move first to Paris, then to Marseille, where Enrico met and frequented Adolphe Monticelli, whose teachings on the subject of light and colour greatly influenced the young Italian painter. 
