Francesco Scarpinato

{{Short description|Italian painter (1840–1895)}}

Francesco Scarpinato (Palermo, August 11, 1840 - December 27, 1895 ) was an Italian painter.

Scarpinato was a prolific painter of genre scenes and vedute of his native Sicily. He had success at exhibitions, including in 1877 Venice, with an oil canvas depicting: A Rustic Shabby House. In Turin, in 1880: Il Villaggio; La Spiaggia della Colonetfa and Tramonto, exhibited at the 1883 Milanese Mostra of Fine Arts. The same year at the Exposition of Rome: Sicilian Countryside; A Courtyard; and A Morning in Palermo. The latter canvas was exhibited at the Exposition of Turin in 1884. In 1886 at Livorno, he displayed; Last Rays and Tramonto in Sicily. The next year in Venice: Era l'ora del desìo.[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Zz0bAAAAYAAJ ‘‘Dizionario degli Artisti Italiani Viventi: pittori, scultori, e Architetti.’’], by Angelo de Gubernatis. Tipe dei Successori Le Monnier, 1889, page 460.