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Description: | Oil on canvas. This painting shows a view from Posillipo, the hill which forms a peninsula separating the Bay of Naples from Pozzuoli Bay. The scene looks south towards the Bay of Naples. To the left the monastery of San Martino (now a museum), can be seen perched on Vomero hill.
At least four other versions of this painting by William Marlow are known to exist. Marlow painted the area around Naples more frequently than any other location. Sketches made on site were probably used by the artist to produce albums of pen and ink drawings, from which clients could select a composition for a painting. A pen and ink drawing of this particular view is within an album by Marlow in the Tate collection.
Between 1765 and 1766 Marlow toured through France and Italy, visiting Florence, Rome and Naples and making numerous drawings. These studies would serve him for the rest of his life in the production of oil paintings of French and Italian views. Throughout the 18th century Naples’ was famed as one of the most fascinating European cities, owing to the beauty of the Bay (today irrevocably changed by industrialisation) and the captivating ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii nearby. | Subjects: | shore genre topography seascape/coastal scene ship cliff Italian house townscape/cityscape man | Source: | Government Art Collection | Creator: | William Marlow | Identifier: | http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/work.aspx?... | Go to resource |
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