Portrait of the painter Nandor Thuroczy by Gaetano Esposito Oil painting on plywood from the end of the 19th century. Measurements: cm h 23 x 37 cm Gaetano Esposito (1858 - 1911) He was born in Salerno on 17 November. 1858 in a family of fishermen. He escaped the seafaring life after having escaped a shipwreck, he received the first drawing lessons from the Salerno painter Gaetano D'Agostino. The young man's artistic talent was later noticed by Domenico Morelli, who in 1872 made him admit, as a pensioner in the province of Salerno, to the royal institute of fine arts in Naples. In addition to the academic courses, E. he attended Stanislao Lista's night school, but in general his studies were rather discontinuous