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FORTUNINO MATANIA: A noted contributor to The Sphere

... scenes in the First World War. Chevalier Fortunino Matania was born in Naples in 1881 and, according to his own account, was ed ucated in the studio of his father, an Art Professor. The drawing by Fortunino Matania is of the occasion in Guildhall, London ...

Published: Saturday 23 February 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 324 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

1914-1938 WAR AND PEACE

... Peace Sixty Years of News 1914 A HEROIC ACTION DURING THE RETREAT FROM MONS: The original water- colour painting by Fortunino Matania, which was reproduced in The Sphere of November 14, 1914, shows L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, in action at Nery ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 904 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

SIXTY YEARS OF NEWS: A Special Section Containing Some Notable Drawings and Pictures from Issues of The Sphere ..

... more famous names were added to the list of contributors. In 1905 Shorter obtained the exclusive services of the artist Fortunino Matania, who, happily, is still alive to-day. Discussing the black-and- white artists who worked for newspapers, the editor wrote ...

Published: Saturday 30 January 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1852 | Page: 17 | Tags: Illustrations 

NEWS SUMMARY: Resumption of disarmament talks; the overthrow of General Kassem; Canada prepares for a general ..

... nearly 18 years. His release was taken as indicating a new stage in the relations between Rome and Moscow. DEATH OF FORTUNINO MATANIA Chevalier Fertunino Matania, who died in London last week, was one of the most dis tinguished artists who worked for ...

Published: Saturday 16 February 1963
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1072 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

Royal Connoisseurship Not quite. And words do indeed

... elderly RA 's wife was drc sed, or robed, rather like a Greek lady out of Alma- Tadema (or a Graeco-Roman lady drawn by Fortunino Matania). he wa very gracious. The sherry was good. But I thought I had entered the forecourt if not of Hell, then of Hypocrisy ...

Published: Thursday 15 February 1968
Newspaper: Country Life
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1710 | Page: 93 | Tags: none

Small in size big in appeal HOGARTH PUPPETS’ (Ashcroft) was disappointing to find such a small audience at ..

... ratner Eduardo Matania from whom he derived the painstaking attention to detail from which ne never deviated Like Picasso Fortunino Matania acquired a complete academic painting technique at a very early age He exhibited in Naples when 11 years old and at 14 ...

The Advertiser Friday March 31 1967 April 2nd fw Ayi Lata night Twriiy SIDNEY (AMES KENNETH WILLIAMS CHARLES ..

... Charlton Heston Gardner in “55 Days at Peking” (u) ART EXHIBITION W 1 1 I f t Galleries Sonth Croydon: Two paintings by Fortunino Matania (“ Christ Entering Jerusalem” and “Sermon on the Mount”) rriHERE is something Cassandra-like about the timing of the ...