Fortunino
Matania was born
in Naples in 1881. By the age of twenty he was working in Paris and
soon afterwards moned to London where he
was appointed as an illustrator with The
Graphic. After three years in England he had to go back to
Italy to do his national military service.
After completing his military duties Matania returned to England where
he was employed by The Sphere.
King George V was impressed with Mantania's
work and invited him to cover his tour of India.
During the First World War Mantania was employed
by the Ministry of Propaganda. He visited the Western
Front several times and his drawings of the conflict appeared
in The Illustrated London News
and the French journal, L'Illustration.
Fortunino Matania died in 1963.
Fortunino
Matania, Six-in Guns (1916)
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