Giovanni Stefano Maia (1672–1747) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period, active in Genoa and Naples.
Biography Born and trained in Genoa, he was forced to flee Genoa after participating in a brawl.Dizionario geografico-storico-statistico-commerciale degli stati del Re di Sardegna, Volume 7, by Goffredo Casalis, Turin (1840), pp 727–728. He moved to Rome and Naples, where he worked under Francesco Solimena. He returned to his native country only in 1727, but was impoverished for commissions since his skill as a portrait artists was not well known.Casalis, p 728.
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