Lot 248: Gabriele Ricciardelli (active c. 1741-1777)

Gabriele Ricciardelli (active c. 1741-1777)
View of the Thames at Westminster
oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 61 in. (100 x 155 cm.)

Ricciardelli was a Neapolitan view painter, who is believed to have been a pupil of Nicola Bonito and Jans Frans van Bloemen. He was employed by the Bourbon Court at Portici and provided several overdoors for the Palazzo Reale in Naples. The artist travelled to Dublin in 1753 where he established a successful practice, before moving in 1759 to London, where he was last recorded exhibiting in the Strand in 1777. His four vedute of Naples, engraved by Antonio Cardon in 1765, found great success with the English nobility.