Amateur wood carver and furniture maker who was born at Padua, in Italy to Domenico and Malvina, n_e Ricci. This was an old Albaredo d’Adige (Verona) family. Orphaned in 1895 he arrived in Western Australia in 1897 with his younger brother Antonio to join his older brother Francesco and uncle Eugenio, a mining entrepreneur.
Carlo married Florence Baxter, sister of his brother’s wife in 1904. When Carlo went farming in Nungarin about 1910 he sold much of his furniture some of which was purchased by J. W. R. Linton including a carved corner cabinet now in the collection of the Western Australian Museum and often described as by Linton.
- Writers:
- Dr Dorothy Erickson
- Date written:
- 2010
- Last updated:
- 2011
