Italianate Landscape with Two Figures on a Rock before a Fortified Town
manner of Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1650 - circa 1750
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
495 x 648 mm (19 1/2 x 25 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732244
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Italianate Landscape with Two Figures on a Rock before a Fortified Town, manner of Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673), mid 17th - mid 18th century. A lone figure walks along a wooded path carrying a bundle on the left. On the right, figures sit or stand on a rocky bank by a river and others are bathing in front of a walled town.
Provenance
Probably brought from Wavendon by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare 6th Bt (1865 - 1947) and Alda Weston, Lady Hoare (d. 1947) between 1894 and 1898; given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: Inscribed on back of stretcher in pencil: Bottom Picture Left Handside [ .............] Verso: Inscribed on backof stretcher and femae in black: 419; on back of frame in red: 562
Makers and roles
manner of Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615 – Rome 1673), artist previously catalogued as manner of Italian School, artist previously catalogued as manner of Gaspard Dughet (Rome 1615 – Rome 1675), artist