Francesco Coppola Castaldo Art

Francesco Coppola Castaldo was born in Naples, Italy, in 1847. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, under the guidance of Giuseppe Mancinelli and Domenico Morelli. There he knew his companions Stanislao Sidoti and Gustavo Mancinelli, son of one of his professors. Very early and very prolific, he made his debut at the Salvator Rosa Promoter in Naples in 1863, maintaining continuous participation, up to the 1911 exhibition. He preferably painted in oil, tempera or gouache and was a renowned landscape painter. He taught painting at the municipal high school of Naples and was also an honorary professor at the Academy where he had studied. His works Un boschetto, At the decline of the day and On the shore of the sea, exhibited at the exhibitions of the “Promoter” of 1872, 1877 and 1881, were purchased by the Kings of Italy Vittorio Emanuele II and Umberto I.