Imaginary River Landscape
Jakob Philipp Hackert (Prenzlau 1737 – San Piero di Careggi 1807)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1795 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1194 x 1651 mm (47 x 65 in)
Place of origin
Naples
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608948
Caption
This picture was acquired by William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick (1773-1842) when he was minister at the Court of Naples. The picture is signed and dated 1795, by which time Hackert had moved from his native Germany, and had become Court Painter in Naples for King Ferdinand IV. Hackert’s style encompassed aspects of seventeenth century Dutch landscape painting and the mood of Claude Lorrain. The painting was traditionally called ‘A View on the Tiber’, but it is really an ideal landscape. The circular temple, on the top of the hill to the left, resembles that at Tivoli, but also Vanvitelli’s tholos (round building with conical roof) in the English Garden at Casserta.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Imaginary River Landscape by Jakob Philipp Hackert (Prenzlau 1737 – San Piero di Careggi 1807), signed and dated: Filippo Hackert dipinse a Napoli 1795. A small circular temple, reminiscent of that at Tivoli, above a waterfall at the left; shepherd resting beneath tree in the foreground watching a flock of goats; bridge in the middle distance and mountains beyond.
Provenance
3rd Lord Berwick collection: William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick (1773-1842);1847 Catalogue of Paintings p.8; 1861 Inventory p.214; 'Heirloom' 1947 Probate Valuation no.54. By descent bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
20 on frame
Makers and roles
Jakob Philipp Hackert (Prenzlau 1737 – San Piero di Careggi 1807), artist