Giuseppe Bonito, Portrait of Maria Antonia di Borbone with dog, oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm.
Giuseppe Bonito (Castellammare di Stabia, 1707 - Naples, 1789) Portrait of Maria Antonia of Bourbon with dog Oil on canvas, 120x90 cm Giuseppe Bonito Castellammare di Stabia, 1707 - Naples, 19 May 1789) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. He was one of the greatest Neapolitan genre painters, his numerous canvases of a popular character make him one of the best representatives of the genre, perhaps the most important in southern Italy in the eighteenth century. He had a lot of success, so much so that some canvases by other contemporary painters from his compatriots were attributed to him for a long time. The most striking case was that of the Neapolitan Gaspare Tra