The National Gallery of Art has acquired A Man Cutting Tobacco, painted in Malta in the 1660s by the leading Italian Baroque artist, Mattia Preti (1613–1699).

Mattia Preti, the very prolific ... a genre that would influence Preti in some of his works, and the Bolognese artists, who included Guido Reni (1575-1642) and Lionello Spada (1576-1622), among ...