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Giacomo Baseggio (Venice 1740? - before 1789) and by his son Antonio (Venice 1760/1765 -?) worked in collaboration with Antonio Piemontesi known as il Baseggio (Vienna 1737 - Livorno 1813). 

The Baseggios wereactive in Venice, Livorno, and Rome in the 18th century and early 19th Century. They are renowned Livorno view painters of ancient cities and ports of the Levant, and they made nautrical maps and natural views.   There output included paintings of the Black Sea and its ports   The Grand Duke of Tuscany, Peter Leopold Josef Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard (later Leopold II of Austria), son of Maria Theresa of Habsburg and Francis I of Lorraine, commissioned over 40 works by the Baseggio Family.  This collection was taken to Vienna in 1790 when the Grand Duke became the left Florence and became the Emperor of Austria (Holy Roman Emperor).  

It is possible that these Baseggios  are related to the Baseggio Family of artists from Rovigo.

Leopold II's collection of the works of Baseggio, can currently be found at Castello Miramare (near Trieste, Italy), the spectacular waterfront  chateau and gardens constructed by Archduke Maximilian shortly after he became Emperor of Mexico. Maximillian brought the collection to Trieste from Vienna when he was named Rear Admiral and Commander of the Habsburg Navy.  Maximillian decorated the walls of Villa Lazarovich, his first residence in Trieste with the paintings.  During the planning for the construction of Castello Miramonte and following Maximillian's appointment as the Emperor of Mexico, he gave very specific instructions for the use of these paintings to to embellish the luxurious rooms of Castello Miramare, upon its completion.