After learning the art of wood carving at courses held by the Società Centrale Operaia Napoletana and working in the studio of
Stanislao Lista, Migliaro enrolled in 1875 at the
Naples Institute of Fine Arts, where his masters included
Domenico Morelli. While a short trip to
Paris in 1877 afforded him the opportunity to study the works exhibited in the Louvre, the artist's main source of inspiration was Naples and its highly animated everyday life. The works he presented in exhibitions at the national and international level – including
Turin (1880, 1884, and 1898) and
Barcelona (1911), where he won a silver medal – gained him a reputation as a keen observer of Neapolitan life. Involved in the decoration of the
Caffè Gambrinus in the following decade together with
Vincenzo Irolli and other painters, he took part in the
Venice Biennale from 1901 to 1928 and exhibited alongside
Vincenzo Caprile and
Vincenzo Gemito, both Neapolitans, at the Galleria Pesaro,
Milan, in 1927. ==References==