Chevalier Fortunino Matania(In 1904, Clement Shorter, editor of The Sphere magazine, engaged a twent
Chevalier Fortunino Matania(In 1904, Clement Shorter, editor of The Sphere magazine, engaged a twenty-three year-old from Naples as the magazine’s ‘special artist’ forming a fruitful, working relationship between publisher and artist that would last over forty years. Fortunino Matania (1881-1963) had been born into the world of illustrated journalism. His father Eduardo was a leading artist for the quality Italian weekly, L’Illustrazione, and his cousin Ugo, would also go on to work for The Sphere.)(via bapla.org.uk) -- source link
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