French Baroque Era Painter, ca.1594-1632 Related Paintings of VALENTIN DE BOULOGNE :. | St John the Baptist wet | Die Falschspieler | The Last Supper naqtr | Die Falschspieler | The Fortune Teller | Related Artists:
Fernand HodlerDay I,1899-1900
ekens, Joseph FrancisEnglish, 1702-1748
Giuseppe BonitoGiuseppe Bonito (11 January 1707 - 9 May 1789) was a Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period. Giuseppe Bonito is known for genre depictions on canvas. Many of Gaspare Traversi's paintings had previously been attributed to Bonito.
Bonito was born at Castellammare di Stabia, and, like Traversi, was a student at the large studio of Francesco Solimena. Bonito represented urban scenes with folklore details and figures of commedia dell'arte. Between the 1736 and 1742 Bonito it worked for the family Borboni in the royal palace of Portici. He also painted portraits including one of Maria Amalia di Sassonia, wife of the Charles VII, king of Naples.
