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| Antonio de Bellis St Sebastian tended by St Irene ca. 1640-45 oil on panel Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon |
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| Antonio de Bellis St Catherine of Alexandria ca. 1645 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antonio de Bellis Apollo and Marsyas ca. 1637-40 oil on canvas John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida |
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| Antonio de Bellis St Sebastian ca. 1650 oil on canvas Pier Luigi Pizzi Collection, Venice |
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| attributed to Antonio de Bellis Healing of Tobias ca. 1650 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Antonio de Bellis Christ saving Peter from the Waters ca. 1635-40 oil on canvas Musée Calvet, Avignon |
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| Antonio de Bellis Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1640 oil on copper private collection |
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| Antonio de Bellis The Mocking of Christ before 1656 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antonio de Bellis St Sebastian ca. 1640 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans |
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| Antonio de Bellis Triumph of David ca. 1650 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Antonio de Bellis Liberation of St Peter ca. 1640-45 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antonio de Bellis Liberation of St Peter (detail) ca. 1640-45 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antonio de Bellis Liberation of St Peter (detail) ca. 1640-45 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Antonio de Bellis Christ and the Woman of Samaria ca. 1645 oil on canvas Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Antonio de Bellis Christ and the Woman of Samaria (detail of well-head with relief of Moses Striking the Rock) ca. 1645 oil on canvas Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Antonio de Bellis Study for Dead Christ ca. 1640 oil on canvas private collection |
"From about 1630 on Naples was drawn into the mainstream of Baroque painting owing to the considerable contributions made by painters coming from Rome. It is mainly three different trends that were acclimatized in Naples: Domenichino's Baroque classicism, Lanfranco's intense High Baroque, and the discursive Caravaggism of the second generation. . . . The social upheaval caused by Masaniello's revolt in 1647 resulted in some artists leaving the city, but more serious was the great plague of 1656 during which many of them died [probably including the obscure Antonio de Bellis, whose name is not even mentioned in Wittkower's comprehensive survey]."
– Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750 by Rudolf Wittkower (1958), revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu for Yale University Press (1999)