Giovanni Battista Recco

Giovanni Battista Recco (c.1615, Naples - 1660, Naples) was an Italian still-life painter of the .

Biography A member of the Recco family of artists, he is generally considered to be the brother of Giacomo Recco, making him the uncle of Giuseppe Recco, both of whom were also still-life painters.

He was completely forgotten until 1961, when a museum official named Nolfo di Carpegna (1913–1996) noticed four stylistically similar paintings, signed with the monogram "G.B.R.". It may have been assumed that they were painted by a more familiar artist, Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo, but the addition of one other painting, with his full signature, established the connection. Six more signed paintings were discovered by the art historian, Raffaelo Causa (1923–1984), in 1972.

His style is usually described as naturalistic and compared to Caravaggio, but is clearly influenced by the Bodegónes, in the style of Juan van der Hamen y León, and Sánchez Cotán. Several Spanish artists were residents of Naples at the time, and may have provided some inspiration.