an artist. His father was an educated man, and with his other relatives
encouraged his son in his taste for art. When twenty years old he went to
Rome, and with the exception of some intervals remained there during his
life.

It is said that as a youth he associated much with bandits, and, when one
considers the wildness of many of his scenes and the character of the
figures in their midst, it is not difficult to believe that this may have
been true. It is certain that he painted the portrait of the famous
Masaniello more than once, and he is believed to have joined the
_Compagnia della Morte_, of which Falcone, one of his masters, was the
captain.

Salvator made many enemies by his independence and his inclination to
satire. He wrote satires on various subjects which were not published
until after his death, but it was known that he had written them. He
married a Florentine woman, who was the mother of his two sons. When he
died he was buried in the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, where a
monument is erected to his memory.

He painted some historical subjects and portraits in which he followed the
Naturalists, but his principal works were landscapes. Jagged rocks and
mountains, wild dells and lonely defiles, with here and there robbers,
hermits, or soldiers, make his most effective pictures. There is a deep
sense of desolation, almost of fear, in them which is very impressive.
Sometimes he painted serene landscapes and poetic figures; but his best
works are not of this sort. His pictures are in the principal public and
in some private galleries. He also left about ninety etchings which are
masterly in execution and full of expression in the heads, while the
atmosphere is soft. When his works are sold they bring great prices. A
large landscape with Apollo and the Sibyl in the foreground brought eight
thousand five hundred dollars in England years ago, and is now worth much
more than that.

Early in the eighteenth century an artist named ANTONIO CANALE
(1697-1768), called CANALETTO, began to make views of the city of Venice
and scenes on the canals. He had two followers, BERNARDO BELLOTTI
(1720-1780), who was his nephew, and FRANCESCO GUARDI (1712-1793), and
these three painters executed a large number of these pictures, which are
found in many European galleries, and it is not always easy to distinguish
their authorship. There is no doubt that many which were once attributed
to the first master were really paint