A View of Naples seen from the South with Maschio Angiono and the Monastery of...

Gabriele Ricciardelli (fl.1741 - d.1777). Oil painting on canvas, A View of Naples seen from the South (from the Marinella) with Maschio Angioino and the Monastery of San Martino on the hill beyond by Gabriele Ricciardelli (fl.1741 - d.1777), 1747. Figures at various pursuits, including a woman hanging out washing, are shown along the coastal foreground. On the right is the Castle of Carmine and on the hill top San Martino monastery and S. Elmo Castle. A stone in the right foreground is inscribed with the artist's name. Little is known of Ricciardelli, but he was able to take advantage of the vogue for Neopolitan views to produce many pictures for vistors on the Grand Tour. The Harpurs, however, do not seem to have acquired these on their Continental expedition; Isabel Harpur Crewe states that they were 'bought, I believe, by Sir Henry Crewe out of an inn at Leicester'. The English form of his Christian name in his signatures suggests that Ricciardelli was in England when these pictures were painted. Calke Abbey, Derbyshire (Accredited Museum)