Neapolitan School, early 19th Century

The Grotto of Posillipo and Roman Ruins on the Palatine were popular subjects for plein air sketches from the end of the eighteenth century onwards. The recent exhibition A Brush With Nature: The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches at the National Gallery, London, featured work by the Welsh artist Thomas Jones (1742-1803) of the Grotto (cat. no.43), and a sketch by Lord Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) of an archway on the Palatine (cat. no.48).