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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
River Landscape with Ruins, Travellers and a Roman Aqueduct, Possibly the Ponte de Maddaloni, Naples
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
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compared to the extensive information about American artists.
 An artist about whom little is known but whose career appears to have been
very successful, Carlo Bonavia was a landscape painter working
primarily in Naples in the romantic, idyllic tradition influenced by
the classical poetry of Virgil. The settings were imaginary but
often had references to Virgil such as images of his tomb.
Bonavia's work was especially popular with the many visitors to Naples
who were on the 'Grand Tour". One of his patrons was Lord
Brudenell, for whom Bonavia did a commission piece: Eruption of Vesuvius from the Mole Lighthouse in the Moonlight.
Another patron was Graf Karl Joseph Firmian, who was the Austrian
ambassador to Naples between 1753 and 1758 and who purchased seventeen
paintings by Bonavia---landscapes, literary and mythological subjects.
It is likely Bonavia was a native of Rome, but he did much work in
Naples between 1751 and 1788, dates of his early to late
paintings. His style has several obvious influences from Italians
Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) and Leonardo Coccorante (1680-1750), and the
French painter, Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714-1789). All three men
were in Naples at the same time as Bonavia.
Bonavia also did engraving and drawings, and some of his drawings are
in the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art in San Francisco.
Other public collections holding work by Bonavia include the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Accademia Nazionale di
San Luca in Rome.
Source:
http://www.richard-green.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=6&tabindex=5&objectid=1302
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