_Bernardo Cavallino_ (Neapolitan: 1622-1654).
This painter was a pupil of Massimo Stanzioni (a rival of
Spagnoletto), and showed such ability that "at first he created
a jealous feeling in Massimo himself. Finding afterwards that
his talent lay more in small figures than in large, he pursued
that department and became very celebrated in his school. In
the galleries of the Neapolitan nobility are to be seen by him,
on canvas and copper, subjects both sacred and profane. Life
was alone wanting to him, which he unfortunately shortened by
his irregularities" (Lanzi, ii. 41).
A characteristic work in the "naturalistic" manner.