18th century oil capriccio of Rome
View Similar Items
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 9
Arthur Devis18th century oil capriccio of Rome1736
1736
About the Item
- Creator:Arthur Devis (1712 - 1787)
- Creation Year:1736
- Dimensions:Height: 24.38 in (61.93 cm)Width: 29 in (73.66 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:Preserved in excellent condition and housed in original carved giltwood George II frame.
- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU150727720482
About the Seller
5.0
Recognized Seller
These prestigious sellers are industry leaders and represent the highest echelon for item quality and design.
1stDibs seller since 2021
More From This SellerView All
- 18th century allegorical painting of The Triumph of BeautyLocated in London, GBExhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1800, no. 93 What was happening in British history painting in around 1800? In recent discussions of the emergence of a British School of history painting following the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, this is a question which is rarely posed and one which is not easily answered. Examination of surviving Royal Academy exhibition catalogues reveals a profusion of artists’ names and titles, few of which remain immediately recognizable, whilst endeavours to explain the impact of exhibition culture on painting - such as the 2001 Courtauld show Art on the Line - have tended to focus on the first and second generation of Royal Academician, rather than young or aspiring artists in the early nineteenth century. This makes the discovery and identification of the work under discussion of exceptional importance in making sense of currents in English painting around 1800. Executed by Edward Dayes...Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Early oil depicting the Great Fire of LondonLocated in London, GBThe Great Fire of London in September 1666 was one of the greatest disasters in the city’s history. The City, with its wooden houses crowded together in narrow streets, was a natural fire risk, and predictions that London would burn down became a shocking reality. The fire began in a bakery in Pudding Lane, an area near the Thames teeming with warehouses and shops full of flammable materials, such as timber, oil, coal, pitch and turpentine. Inevitably the fire spread rapidly from this area into the City. Our painting depicts the impact of the fire on those who were caught in it and creates a very dramatic impression of what the fire was like. Closer inspection reveals a scene of chaos and panic with people running out of the gates. It shows Cripplegate in the north of the City, with St Giles without Cripplegate to its left, in flames (on the site of the present day Barbican). The painting probably represents the fire on the night of Tuesday 4 September, when four-fifths of the City was burning at once, including St Paul's Cathedral. Old St Paul’s can be seen to the right of the canvas, the medieval church with its thick stone walls, was considered a place of safety, but the building was covered in wooden scaffolding as it was in the midst of being restored by the then little known architect, Christopher Wren and caught fire. Our painting seems to depict a specific moment on the Tuesday night when the lead on St Paul’s caught fire and, as the diarist John Evelyn described: ‘the stones of Paul’s flew like grenades, the melting lead running down the streets in a stream and the very pavements glowing with the firey redness, so as no horse, nor man, was able to tread on them.’ Although the loss of life was minimal, some accounts record only sixteen perished, the magnitude of the property loss was shocking – some four hundred and thirty acres, about eighty per cent of the City proper was destroyed, including over thirteen thousand houses, eighty-nine churches, and fifty-two Guild Halls. Thousands were homeless and financially ruined. The Great Fire, and the subsequent fire of 1676, which destroyed over six hundred houses south of the Thames, changed the appearance of London forever. The one constructive outcome of the Great Fire was that the plague, which had devastated the population of London since 1665, diminished greatly, due to the mass death of the plague-carrying rats in the blaze. The fire was widely reported in eyewitness accounts, newspapers, letters and diaries. Samuel Pepys recorded climbing the steeple of Barking Church from which he viewed the destroyed City: ‘the saddest sight of desolation that I ever saw.’ There was an official enquiry into the causes of the fire, petitions to the King and Lord Mayor to rebuild, new legislation and building Acts. Naturally, the fire became a dramatic and extremely popular subject for painters and engravers. A group of works relatively closely related to the present picture have been traditionally ascribed to Jan Griffier...Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- 18th century view of the Elephant and Castle in LondonLocated in London, GBCollections: With Martyn Gregory; Judy Egerton, 1984, acquired from the above; By descent to 2014. Exhibited: London, Martyn Gregory, Exhibition of English & Continental Watercolours, 1984, no. 94. London, Lowell Libson...Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
MaterialsVellum, Gouache
- 18th century oil sketches for a Baroque interior - a pairLocated in London, GBA FEAST OF THE GODS WITH VENUS AND BACCHUS Collections: With Appleby Brothers, London, June 1957; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1961; John and Eileen Harris, acquired from the above, to 2015. Literature: Jacob Simon and Ellis Hillman, English Baroque Sketches: The Painted Interior in the Age of Thornhill, 1974, cat. no.12 (as by Louis Laguerre); Elizabeth Einberg (ed.), Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760, exh. cat., London (Tate Gallery), 1987, cat. no.10 (as by Louis Laguerre); Tabitha Barber and Tim Bachelor, British Baroque: Power and Illusion, exh. cat., London (Tate Britain), 2020. Exhibited: Twickenham, Marble Hill House, English Baroque Sketches: The Painted Interior in the Age of Thornhill, 1974, no.12 (as by Louis Laguerre); London, Tate Gallery, Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760, 1987, no.10 (as by Louis Laguerre); London, Tate Britain, British Baroque: Power and Illusion, cat. no 92, 2020. CUPID AND PSYCHE BEFORE JUPITER Collections: With Appleby Brothers, London, June 1957; Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1961; Anthony Hobson, acquired from the above, to 2015. These recently re-united paintings are the most ambitious surviving baroque ceiling sketches made in Britain in the early eighteenth century. From the Restoration until the rise of Palladianism in the 1720s decorative history painting formed the preeminent artistic discipline in Britain. It was a field dominated by Continental artists including the Italian Antonio Verrio and the Frenchmen Louis Laguerre and Louis Chéron...Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- 20th century oil painting entitled The Unknown CornerLocated in London, GBCollections: Robert Isaacson; James Draper, New York, 2014. Exhibited: Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Beggarstaffs: William Nicholson and James Pr...Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- 18th century portrait of the painter Nathaniel DanceLocated in London, GBCollections: Robert Gallon (1845-1925); Private Collection, UK. Oil on canvas laid down on panel Framed dimensions: 11.5 x 10 inches This highly engaging, previously unpublished portrait by Johan...Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
MaterialsOil, Wood Panel, Canvas
You May Also Like
- 18th Century English Oil Landscape Painting: Elegant Figures alongside River WyeBy Attributed to William MarlowLocated in London, GBAttributed to William Marlow (English, 1740-1813) Elegant Figures alongside the River Wye 1790 131 x 152 cm, inc. frame This quiet bucolic scene shows figur...Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Waterloo Battlefield with 3 Monuments - Butte du Lion, Antique Oil PaintingLocated in Cirencester, GloucestershireThe Battlefield of Waterloo English School, 19th century original oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 12 x 15.5 inches framed: 17.5 x 20.5 inches condition: overall very good and presentable, some former restoration and signs of retouching visible. provenance: from a private collection A very rare and historically important early painting, depicting the Waterloo battle...Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- Huge 18th Century Italian Oil Painting Shipping in Merchant Port Many FiguresLocated in Cirencester, GloucestershireThe Merchants Port Italian School, 18th century oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 37 x 58 inches canvas: 32 x 52 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: very good a...Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Antique battle painter - 17th century figure painting Battle KnightBy Jacques CourtoisLocated in Varmo, ITJacques Courtois, known as il Borgognone (Saint-Hyppolite 1621 - Rome 1676) circle of - Battaglia. 53 x 80 cm without frame, 73.5 x 97.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canv...Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
MaterialsOil, Canvas
- Louis XIV and his army at the crossing of the Rhine by Adam-Frans van der MeulenBy Adam Frans van der MeulenLocated in PARIS, FRAdam-Frans van der Meulen (Bruxelles, 1632 - Paris, 1690) Louis XIV and his army at the crossing of the Rhine 12 June 1672 Signed A.F VANDERMEULEN at the right low corner Oil on can...Category
1670s Old Masters Landscape Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- The Parade of Swiss Guards a painting on canvas by Gabriel de Saint-AubinLocated in PARIS, FRIn this painting, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, the great chronicler of the reign of Louis XV, takes us to the annual parade of the Swiss Guards at the Plaine de...Category
1760s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
18th Century Georgian Fashion
18th Century Capriccio
Over Sized 18th Century Oil Painting
Column Trajan
Trajan Column
Antique Church Gates
Stubbs Painting
George Stubbs Painting
A Younger Ltd
Antique Preston
Half Dome Light
Italianate Oil
Arthur Tooth
Profile Portrait Roman
George Stubbs
Portrait Of James Stanley
An Architectural Capriccio
Small Mantelpiece