Gaetano Esposito, Sorrento, circa 1900
Description
Oil on canvas/plywood, signed lower right: "G.Esposito".
Framed: 49x55 cm (40x46 cm).
Gaetano Esposito (Salierno 1858 - 1911 Sala Consilina) - Italian painter. He studied privately with Gaetano D'Agostino (1837-1914) and then at the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti in Naples, where he was a student of Filippo Palizzi, Domenico Morelli and Stanisław Lista (1824-1908). In the years 1875-1906 he regularly participated in exhibitions organized by Nepolyan Associations of Fine Arts. He achieved his first success at the National Exhibition in Naples in 1877 showing three genre scenes. Initially, he painted genre scenes with children, inspired by the works of Antonio Mancini. Later, landscapes from Italian cities, marinas. In 1880 at the Turin Exhibition, the scene "Christ among his children" was purchased by the Ministry of Education. He also appeared in Rome (1893), Florence (1896-7), St. Petersburg (1902) and at the World Exhibition in Saint Louis (1904). Awarded many times.