Carlo Amalfi or Aniello (1707– 1787) was an Italian painter, active in the Kingdom of Naples as mainly a portrait artist.
Biography Carlo was born in Piano di SorrentoDizionario biografico degli italiani Treccani, vol. 2, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, entry by Raffaello Causa, 1960. or Vico Equense.Storia della pittura in Napoli ed in Sicilia dalla fine del 1600, a noi, by Carlo Tito Dalbono, published by Luigi Gargulio, Naples (1859), pages 63-64. Among his most prominent portraits is that of Prince Raimondo di Sangro, located in the Cappella Sansevero of Naples.
Other works by Amalfi can be seen in churches in Nocera, and in the grand council hall of Castel Capuano in Naples, where he worked in 1752 alongside the quadrature painter Giovanni Battista Natali. He also painted some genre works in the style of Gaspare Traversi.Treccani entry.
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