1818 – 1899

Italian painter, considered one of the most representative artists of the realist school of Naples. He embarked on legal studies but left these to attend the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti in Naples from 1836 as an external student of landscape painting under Anton Sminck Pitloo (1791-1837). After Pitloo's death, he studied under Gabriele Smargiassi (1798-1882), whose academic and dogmatic approach he adopted in his own work, along with the fundamentally Romantic spirit informing it.Show more

1 artwork in collection