Carlo Bossoli (6 December 1815, in Lugano – 1 August 1884, in Turin)[1] was a Swiss-born Italian painter and lithographer, who spent his early career in Ukraine.

[3] In 1828, he was hired by the Odesa Opera to work as an assistant to Rinaldo Nannini,[2] a stage designer who had studied at La Scala under Alessandro Sanquirico.

[citation needed] Luckily, his work drew the attention of Prince Mikhail Vorontsov, who commissioned him to paint several views of Odesa.

His mother died the following year, but he remained there until 1853, when an unsuccessful uprising against the Austrians forced him to flee to Turin, which he used as his base of operations for travels to England, France, Spain, Morocco, Germany and Scandinavia.

During those years, he produced an album of paintings, showing views of Crimea and customs of Crimean Tatars, which was published in London by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son.