 He enrolled at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, where his masters included Gioacchino Toma, in 1877 and graduated three years later.The work he presented regularly at the exhibitions of the Naples Società Promotrice di Belle Arti as from 1879 comprised portraits and genre scenes.In 1884 in Turin, he exhibited "Amore e dovere" and "Le Maddalene d' oggi"; in 1880 in Milan and in 1887 in Venice, he exhibited numerous drawings from reality.