Gabriele Ricciardelli (born c. 1690, flourished c. 1743– c. 1777 or 1782), was an Italian painter of the

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period, active mainly in depicting landscapes.

Biography

He was born in Naples to an engraver and landscape painter, Giuseppe Ricciardelli. He trained under

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in Naples, but then moved to Rome to train under

Jan Frans van Bloemen Jan Frans van Bloemen (baptized 12 May 1662 - buried 13 June 1749)Vici 1974, pp. 222, 225. was a Flemish landscape painter mainly active in Rome. Here he was able to establish himself as the leading painter of views ( vedute) of the Roman count ...

, (also known as

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), where he encountered the work of

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and

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. Grossi cites his death circa 1760. He was active and popular in

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in the court of Charles of Bourbon, employed at

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and he provided them with several over-doors ('sopraporte') pictures for Naples'

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. He specialized in seascapes, and landscapes (

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). One institution described his work thus: ''His Irish scenes being distinguished by his excellently accurate portrayal of architectural features''. An auction cataloguer described him thus: ''Ricciardelli was exceptional among the Neapolitan view painters in that he spent part of his career in Ireland (Dublin 1753-1759) and England (1777). His four vedute of Naples, engraved by Antonio Cardon in 1765, found great success with the English nobility''. When in Dublin, c. 1753, his patrons included Ralph Howard, 2nd Viscount Wicklow, four of his views of Naples were in the

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sale of 1950; Thomas Dawson, Lord Dartrey; and Dublin's

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, for which an unfinished commission. The dating of the Drogheda pair is based on the inclusion of St. Peter's Church of Ireland, which was rebuilt to a Palladian design from 1748 and re-consecrated, on 22 September 1752.

Gallery

File:Gabriele Ricciardelli View of Drogheda from Ballsgrove c 1750 -1755.jpg, ''View of

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, from Ballsgrove'', oil-on-canvas, 28 x 60 inches. File:View of Drogheda from Millmount, by Gabriele Ricciardelli c.1753.jpg, ''View of

from

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'', oil-on-canvas, 28 x 60 inches. Both these pictures are in Highlanes Municipal Art Gallery, Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland.

References

* Italian Baroque painters 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Naples Italian landscape artists Year of death unknown 1690s births 18th-century Italian male artists Artists from the Kingdom of Naples {{Italy-painter-18thC-stub