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Giovanni Enrico Vajmer was born in Genoa in 1665 to Endryck Vajmer, a sculptor of German origins, who taught him the first rudiments of art, while he later moved to the workshop of the painter known as "Schiena", and then reached that of Maestro Giovan Battista Merano. In 1679 he went to Rome, where he frequented Gaulli's workshop and met Giovanni Maria delle Piane, known as Il Mulinaretto, a painter with whom he has often been confused. Read the full biography

Giovanni Enrico Vajmer was born in Genoa in 1665 to Endryck Vajmer, a sculptor of German origins, who taught him the first rudiments of art, while he later moved to the workshop of the painter known as "Schiena", and then reached that of Maestro Giovan Battista Merano. In 1679 he went to Rome, where he frequented Gaulli's workshop and met Giovanni Maria delle Piane, known as Il Mulinaretto, a painter with whom he has often been confused. Subsequently, in 1684, he returned to Genoa, where he began his activity as a portraitist with great success, dedicating himself above all to the local nobility, inspired by the elegance of French painting and the work of Anton Van Dyck.
In the very first decade of the eighteenth century, he was called by the court of Turin, where he stayed for three years at the request of Vittorio Amedeo II of Savoy to paint the portrait of his entire "Royal Family". In the second decade of the eighteenth century, he was again requested by the Savoy court to paint the portrait of the new sovereign Carlo Emanuele III, son of the previous one. Returning to Genoa, he died shortly afterwards in 1738.