The name of Gaspare Vizzini, a painter who in 1782 signed a 'Concert' now in the museum of the Certosa di San Martino in Naples, appears in various payments relating to the new decoration of Palazzo Butera in Palermo dating from 1765-1766. His role as a painter, although known about previously, has been unclear. The restoration of a series of eleven paintings, on display at Palazzo Butera, sheds new light on his development as an artist in the 1780s. Four paintings comically depict the everyday life of a noble lady: rehearsing for a ball, courting with the gentry, posing for a portrait, and at her toilet. Vizzini also painted scenes of social life in Palermo set in local billiard rooms and drinking taverns. Other paintings illustrate a nobleman in a red robe who could be covering his face from the sight and smells of a fishing harbour, and dockworkers gazing in wonder at the moon at sea. Similar to his contemporaries in Naples, and drawing inspiration from the prints of Hogarth, Vizzini stands apart in the context of Palermo painters, like Gioacchino Martorana and Vito d'Anna.