River Landscape with Elements of the English Garden at Caserta
Jakob Philipp Hackert (Prenzlau 1737 – San Piero di Careggi 1807)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1797 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
965 x 1346 mm (38 x 53 in)
Place of origin
Naples
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Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 608950
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 1797, 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. This picture was painted in the year of the French Revolution. Hackert painted a number of pictures that year, all signed, which show elements of the English Garden at Caserta, without representing actual views of it. It has been proposed that the painting of so many English Gardens that year represented a covert message of hostility to the French Revolution on Hackert’s part.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, River Landscape with Elements of the English Garden at Caserta by Jakob Philipp Hackert (Prenzlau 1737 – San Piero di Careggi 1807), signed and dated Filippo Hackert dipinse 1797. A river at the left with a domed Doric temple on the far bank; a garden on the right with two women resting by a path. Apparently an imaginary view with a so-called 'English garden' (landscaped, not formal) in the foreground.
Provenance
Believed to be 3rd Lord Berwick collection: William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick (1773-1842); 'Heirloom' 1947 Probate Val. no.52; 1913 Inventory p.71. 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
Filippo Hackert dipinse 1797 (signed and dated bottom right)
Makers and roles
Jakob Philipp Hackert (Prenzlau 1737 – San Piero di Careggi 1807), artist