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Odoardo Fischetti (ca. 1780 – after 1823) was an Italian painter of landscapes and history paintings in a Neoclassical style.
Biography
Born in Naples, he was son of the court painter Fedele Fischetti. He became a master of design at the Royal College of the Navy in 1809. In 1803–1804, he helped his father in the fresco decoration of the Palace of Portici. In 1805, he prepared some vedute in gouache depicting an Eruption at Vesuvius. With the arrival of the French Napoleonic administration of Joachim Murat, he painted a series of historical canvases, including Murat from Massa Lubrense directs the capture of Capri, and its companion Capture of Capri by French (1808).
After the fall of Murat he continued to paint mainly sacred subjects including the 1821 Virgin, St Biagio, Andrea, Erasmo and Alfonso Maria de Liguori. and The transport of the Arca Santa to the roof of San Biagio in Cardito (1823).