Edoardo Monteforte

Edoardo Monteforte (6 March 1849, Polla – 1932/333, Naples) was an Italian landscape painter.

He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples in 1862, where he studied with Achille Carrillo and Gabriele Smargiassi.

[1] From the beginning, he focused on landscapes and seascapes, in oil and watercolors, with luminous lighting effects.

In 1877 at Naples, he exhibited: Sunday in October Near Pompeii and two watercolors titled: On the Beach and Winter.

After a trip to Egypt, he painted a number of Orientalist subjects, including The Evening on the Upper Nile, and Tomb of the Caliph in Cairo, exhibited in 1898 at Turin.