Gaetano Martoriello (c. 1680–1733) was an Italian painter of the late-

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period, active in his natal city of

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. He painted mainly marine

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and

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. He initially trained under Giacomo del Po, but desiring to paint landscapes he worked under Nicola Massaro, who claimed to have trained under

Salvatore Rosa Salvator Rosa (1615 – March 15, 1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose Romanticism, romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th cent ...

. He is also said to have worked under

Francesco Solimena Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian Baroque painter, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen. Biography Francesco Solimena was born in Canale di Serino in the province of Avellino. H ...

, after the later painter rebuked Martoriello for criticizing some paintings by the German landscape artist, Francesco Joachim Beich.De Dominici, page 366.

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1733 deaths 17th-century Neapolitan people 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian landscape painters Painters from Naples Italian Baroque painters Year of birth uncertain 18th-century Neapolitan people 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub