Born 1775 in Venice, where he died in 1849. At the age of eleven he began his training with the portraitist Ludovico Gallini, later he studied at the Academy in Venice. In 1793 he won a competition at the Academy in Parma. In Venice, Padua, Trieste (Old Stock Exchange, ca. 1820, Governor's Palace, 1821) and in the Veneto province he decorated stately homes with grotesques and motifs from antiquity. From 1810 to 1815 he painted in the Procurator's palace in Venice in Empire style, after the fall of Napoleon he made a name for himself with themes which celebrated the restoration of the Austrian Empire (Victory Accompanying Peace to the Crowning of Europe, 1814). At the time of the Ljubljana Congress in 1821 he also worked in Ljubljana.
Lit.: Giuseppe Pavanello, Opere di Giovanni Carlo Bevilacqua in Padova e nella provincia, Padova e la sua provincia, N.S., 8/9, 1971, pp. 12-18; id., L'autobiografia e il catalogo delle opere di Giovanni Carlo Bevilacqua: (1775-1849), Memorie dell'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, XXXV, IV, 1972, pp. 1-108; La pittura in Italia: L'Ottocento, Editor Enrico Castelnuovo, Vol. I-II, Milano 1991 (biog. Fabrizio Magani).