The Waterfall at Terni, Italy. 18th Century Large Scale Oil Painting

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The Waterfall at Terni, Italy. 18th Century Large Scale Oil Painting
c. 1780's

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The Waterfall at Terni, Italy Attributed to Adolf Friedrich Harper (German 1725 - 1806) oil painting on canvas, framed provenance: private collection, England since 1986, previously with the Gavin Graham Gallery, London Fine large scale 18th century oil painting on canvas, depicting figures with animals in this impressive landscape. The location shown is the waterfall at Terni, in Italy. The work is typical of the Grand Tour taste for such paintings, which were eagerly acquired by travelling European aristocrats to furnish their stately homes with. The painting may be attributed to the hand of the German painter, Adolf Friedrich Harper (1725-1806). Harper was born in Berlin, the son of the Swedish-born court painter Johann Harper, under whom he initially studied. He subsequently trained as a portrait painter, spending part of his time in Paris, and changing to concentrate on landscape when he became Richard Wilson’s pupil in Rome in 1752. From 1754 to 1756, Harper shared rooms in Via Condotti with another follower of Wilson, Johannes Wiedewelt. Together with their friend Johan Mandelberg, who was in Rome from 1755 to 1758, they were part of a circle that included Anton Raphael Mengs and Johann Joachim Winckelmann. Harper left Rome for Stuttgart in the summer of 1756 to work at the court of Carl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg, and was closely associated there with Nicolas Guibal, who had been one of Mengs’s pupils in Rome. Harper painted many landscapes for the palace at Ludwigsburg, some of them closely based upon Wilson’s compositions, although usually executed in a much higher key, and some of these compositions reached a wider audience in the form of engravings. Harper taught landscape at the Hohe Carlsschule in Stuttgart, the first artist to teach landscape painting at a German academy. In August 1797, Harper was visited at Stuttgart by the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, on his travels back from Switzerland to Weimar, shortly after which Harper retired to Berlin. Harper left a collection of some sixty drawings in Stuttgart, mostly by himself but including at least one drawing by Wilson and copies after the French painter François Boucher. They are now in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and recent study of them has provided a new understanding of Harper’s style and his activity in Rome. The present composition has formed part of a noteworthy private collection here in the United Kingdom since being acquired from the prestigious Gavin Graham Gallery in London in 1986. The painting has not appeared on the open market since then. Painted on this large and impressive scale, the work is both an excellent example of its period and genre. Condition report: Very good and presentable.

Attributed to:
Adolf Friedrich Harper (1725 - 1806, German)
Creation Year:
c. 1780's
Dimensions:
Height: 33 in (83.82 cm)Width: 44 in (111.76 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Movement & Style:
Romantic
Period:
18th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Cirencester, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU50933481001

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