VII. Capri

96. Anton Sminck Pitloo Arnhem 1790 – 1837 Naples Pitloo settled in Naples in 1815 and spent the rest of his life in the city, where he set up a private academy of fine arts and was the catalyst for the development of a local landscape tradition known as the School of Posillipo. Pitloo and his pupils preferred working en plein air, capturing (…)
97. Anton Sminck Pitloo Arnhem 1790 – 1837 Naples Pitloo settled in Naples in 1815 and spent the rest of his life in the city, where he set up a private academy of fine arts and was the catalyst for the development of a local landscape tradition known as the School of Posillipo. Pitloo and his pupils preferred working en plein air, capturing (…)
98. August Kopisch Breslau, now Wroclaw 1799 – 1853 Berlin Kopisch’s view of the Marina Piccola is taken from almost the exact same spot as Kyhn’s (cat. 101), yet at a later time of day. Here, the three stacks of the Faraglioni are brightly illuminated and the rocks in the foreground have colder tones. Its pendant shows a cropped view of houses on the (…)
99. August Kopisch Breslau, now Wroclaw 1799 – 1853 Berlin In this study of Capri, Kopisch presents a cropped view of houses on the island, set against its characteristic inky blue sky. Its pendant shows the Marina Piccola and the three stacks of the Faraglioni (cat. 98). The Prussian poet and painter probably did more than anyone to help establish (…)
100. Anton Alexandre von Werner Frankfurt an der Oder, 1843 – 1915 Berlin The German history painter Anton von Werner is known for his large, highly staged paintings of military subjects, a far cry from this small informal oil sketch. Painted during his travels in Italy between 1868-69, it depicts a group of houses on Capri and the slopes of Monte Solaro, the highest (…)
101. Vilhelm Kyhn Copenhagen 1819 – 1903 Copenhagen Associated with the National Romantic landscape tradition, Kyhn was primarily interested in painting the Danish countryside and his views of foreign lands are relatively rare. He did, however, produce a number of oil sketches during his travels of 1850-51, which inspired paintings of French and (…)
102. Anonymous French, 19^th century Despite the remarkable quality of this study, it has not yet been possible to identify its author, most likely a French artist working in the middle of the nineteenth century. Painted with great clarity, it does justice to the brightness of the sunshine and the mythical blue sky of the island. (…)
103. Gustaf Wilhelm Palm Härlöv, Skåne 1810 – 1890 Stockholm The Swedish artist Gustaf Wilhelm Palm worked as a botanical illustrator before beginning his formal studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, showing an early interest in the depiction of the natural world. He lived in Rome between 1840-51, undertaking numerous sketching (…)
104. Thomas Fearnley Frederikshald, now Halden 1802 – 1842 Munich A protégé of Johan Christian Dahl, the Norwegian painter Thomas Fearnley (his grandfather was a Yorkshireman) had a peripatetic career, and travelled and sketched widely throughout Europe before his untimely death at the age of thirty-nine. After studying in Oslo and Copenhagen, he moved to (…)