A View of the Gulf of Pozzuoli and the Bay of Baia beyond with...

Gabriele Ricciardelli (fl.1741 - d.1777). Oil painting on canvas, A View of the Gulf of Pozzuoli and the Bay of Baia beyond with Capo Miseno, Procida and Ischia by Gabriele Ricciardelli (fl.1741 - d.1777), 1747. Figures sit in the foreground on a hillside with a broken column and a statue on a rectangular plinth. The statue is a reclining man and is admired by a lady and two gentleman. 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)