Francesco Solimena, October 4, 1657 – April 3, 1747, was an Italian painter and architect associated with Naples. He was born at Canale di Serino and received his early artistic training from his father, the painter Angelo Solimena.
Solimena worked for churches and patrons in Naples and elsewhere, producing frescoes, altarpieces, easel paintings, mythological scenes, portraits, and drawings. He directed a large workshop and taught artists including Francesco de Mura, Corrado Giaquinto, and Giuseppe Bonito.
He died at Barra, near Naples, in 1747. His work is represented in major collections including the Museo del Prado, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Hagar and Ishmael in the Desert Comforted by the Angel, c 1690
Oil on canvas, 57.1 × 82.3 in
Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples
Venus at the Forge of Vulcan, 1704
Oil on canvas, 80.9 × 60.5 in
Getty Center, Los Angeles
Portrait of a Woman, after 1705
Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 39.4 in
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
Diana and Endymion, 1705–1710
Oil on canvas, 70.5 × 91.7 in
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
The Royal Hunt of Dido and Aeneas, c 1712–1714
Oil on canvas, 119.3 × 126.4 in
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Madonna and Child, c 1720
Oil on canvas, 25.4 × 18.9 in
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Bacchus and Ariadne, c 1725
Oil on copper, 14 × 19 in
Private Collection
Charles VI and Gundacker Count Althann, 1728
Oil on canvas, 121.7 × 111.8 in
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Saint John the Baptist, c 1730
Oil on canvas, 32.7 × 27.6 in
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Allegorical Figure of Study, 1657–1747
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk, 5.7 × 7.8 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Continence of Scipio, 1657–1747
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk, 16.6 × 22.3 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Study for the Fall of Simon Magus, 1690
Pen and brown ink, gray, green, and rose washes over graphite, 10.1 × 6.6 in
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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