Firework Display, Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome

Location

Country: Italy
City: Rome
Place: British Embassy

Pietro Fabris liked to be known as ‘the English painter ‘, a term which reflected his clientele rather than his nationality. He produced a large quantity of picturesque scenes - chiefly of Naples - for the British market. He exhibited his work in London at the Free Society in 1769 and the Society of Artists in 1772. Two of his most famous paintings, showing two interior scenes of a room in the house of Lord Fortrose in Naples, are in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.

Places

Italy, Vatican City, St. Peter's Basilica, River Tiber, Rome: Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome: Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, genre, townscape/cityscape, tree, night, moon, river, crowd, celebration, fireworks, bridge (urban), fortification, castle, cathedral, balcony

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Pietro Fabris

Title

Firework Display, Castel Sant’Angelo, Rome

Date

1768-1778

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 72.50 cm, width: 92.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Appleby Bros, June 1961

GAC number

5520