Giuseppe De Nigris

Giuseppe De Nigris (7 July 1832 – 2 February 1903) was an Italian painter, who depicted genre scenes and still-lifes in a style known as Neo-Pompeian.

[2] He was able to return to Rome in 1859, when Domenico Morelli gave him a letter of introduction to work in the studios of Achille Vertunni.

These works included The Parish Bell,[3] The Thief's Hand,[4] Garibaldi Said: What a Sad Fate it is for Men to Slaughter Each Other (1862), and The Penitence Procession in the Catacombs of Naples (1880).

Outside of Naples, he displayed Small Pompeian Gladiators (1870, Parma), The Last Day of Pompei (1873, Vienna), A Final Mass (1878, Paris), The First Portrait (1887, Venice),[5] Mannequin (1892, Florence), and The Office of the Phrenologist Gall (1894, Rome).

[2] He also participated in many exhibits outside of Central Europe, including Melbourne (1880) and London (1888), where he painted two still-life arrangements on a bright background and presented them at the Cheltenham Gallery.