View of the Gulf of Naples

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Thomas Dessoulavy
View of the Gulf of Naples
1847

About the Item

Signed and dated lower center: T. Dessoulavy / ROME 1847 Thomas Dessoulavy was born in London 1801 but he moved to Rome at a very early age, staying with celebrated Swiss watercolourist Franz Kaiserman. Swiss sculptor Heinrich Keller lists him among the "landscape painters" in his Elenco drafted in 1824. Dessoulavy's views portray not only the landscapes of Latium but also certain areas in Campania. He had already visited Naples by the late 1820s and he collaborated with the brothers Pietro and Achille Parboni, providing a print of a landscape of the Salento region for the Raccolta delle Vedute del Regno di Napoli which they published in Parma in 1828. Dessoulavy, who spoke fluent Italian and was thus very much in demand with British visitors as a local guide, had become one of the most successful British artists in Rome by the early 1830s. He showed his work in the annual exhibition held by the Società degli Amatori e Cultori di Belle Arti in Rome for the first time in 1839, while in 1846 he sent the Royal Academy in London a View of the Palace of the Caesars. The following year he showed a Landscape at the Royal Academy, and again in 1848 he submitted to it a painting depicting The Gate of San Giovanni in Rome. Despite making frequent trips to England, primarily for purposes connected with his work and chiefly between the mid-1840s and '50s, he chose to live stably in Rome until his death in 1869. The pair of views on display here belongs to the 19th century landscape genre so beloved of the colonies of foreign artists then residing in Italy. The two pictures show two extremely popular views, one of Rome with the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, the other of the Bay of Naples with Vesuvius in the background, and both share the feature of travellers depicted in the foreground. Dessoulavy's style owes a huge debt to the trend in Italian landscape painting that revisited style of the Venetian masters of the genre while imbuing it with a markedly picturesque tone. Using the brush to dab his paint on the canvas, Dessoulavy meticulously reproduces the foliage, grass and figures in the foreground, while the elements in the background betray a more stylised rendering of form. He also devotes a great deal of attention to topographical accuracy, a feature that was to characterise his entire artistic output.

Creator:
Thomas Dessoulavy (1801 - 1869, English)
Creation Year:
1847
Dimensions:
Height: 31.89 in (81 cm)Width: 46.86 in (119 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Movement & Style:
Land
Period:
1840-1849
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Rome, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU95913029063