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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableThe English artist Pietro Fabris, who was of Italian origin, is considered the first painter of the 18th century to use gouache as a painting material for his works. Fabris spent most of his life in Naples. There he mainly painted landscapes and genre paintings, which were particularly popular with the wealthy European social class. The talented painter was the favourite artist of the British Consul in Naples, Sir William Hamilton. He commissioned Fabris to accompany him on his travels to study volcanoes. The hobby geologist wanted to publish a book about the volcanic area around Vesuvius, Etna and Stromboli. The rich Englishman granted financial support to his talented artist friend. In return, Hamilton created several dozen illustrations for his patron. These Goauche paintings are Fabris' most famous works. Fabris captured contemporary volcanic activity for eternity in numerous engravings. The team produced another book together, also about volcanoes in Europe.
Hamilton, who liked to arrange decadent concert parties, also hired Fabris to paint scenes of the celebration. Fabris' painting showing a young Mozart at the harpsichord is particularly interesting. Fabris was able to magically transform the events at the royal court into wonderful paintings and thus depict the Neapolitan life of the elite. But Fabris was not only Hamilton's personal artist. The gifted painter also earned his living by selling other works. The main motif of his genre paintings was the local and simple population in local costume at work or play. In this way Fabris created a varied oeuvre that shows the different milieus of Naples at that time.
The private life of the artist is hardly documented. Probably born in England as the son of a stage designer named Jacobo Fabris, who was trained in Venice, Fabris was taken under the wings of Hamilton's diplomat at a young age. Nothing is known about Fabris' artistic teaching. In 1768 his paintings and drawings were shown in an exhibition of the London Free Society and four years later in the exhibition of the London Society of Artists of Great Britain. In Naples Fabris met the Italian painter and engraver Antonio Joli. Although Fabris was also Italian by birth, it was very important to him to be considered British. He often added a signature to his works with the additional expression "English painter".
The English artist Pietro Fabris, who was of Italian origin, is considered the first painter of the 18th century to use gouache as a painting material for his works. Fabris spent most of his life in Naples. There he mainly painted landscapes and genre paintings, which were particularly popular with the wealthy European social class. The talented painter was the favourite artist of the British Consul in Naples, Sir William Hamilton. He commissioned Fabris to accompany him on his travels to study volcanoes. The hobby geologist wanted to publish a book about the volcanic area around Vesuvius, Etna and Stromboli. The rich Englishman granted financial support to his talented artist friend. In return, Hamilton created several dozen illustrations for his patron. These Goauche paintings are Fabris' most famous works. Fabris captured contemporary volcanic activity for eternity in numerous engravings. The team produced another book together, also about volcanoes in Europe.
Hamilton, who liked to arrange decadent concert parties, also hired Fabris to paint scenes of the celebration. Fabris' painting showing a young Mozart at the harpsichord is particularly interesting. Fabris was able to magically transform the events at the royal court into wonderful paintings and thus depict the Neapolitan life of the elite. But Fabris was not only Hamilton's personal artist. The gifted painter also earned his living by selling other works. The main motif of his genre paintings was the local and simple population in local costume at work or play. In this way Fabris created a varied oeuvre that shows the different milieus of Naples at that time.
The private life of the artist is hardly documented. Probably born in England as the son of a stage designer named Jacobo Fabris, who was trained in Venice, Fabris was taken under the wings of Hamilton's diplomat at a young age. Nothing is known about Fabris' artistic teaching. In 1768 his paintings and drawings were shown in an exhibition of the London Free Society and four years later in the exhibition of the London Society of Artists of Great Britain. In Naples Fabris met the Italian painter and engraver Antonio Joli. Although Fabris was also Italian by birth, it was very important to him to be considered British. He often added a signature to his works with the additional expression "English painter".
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.jpg "Specimens of Tufa found in and around Herculaneum, Plate XXXXV, from")
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.jpg "The Lake of Agnano, Evidently the Crater of an Ancient Volcano, Plate XVIII, from")
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.jpg "View of the Great Eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Sunday Night August 8th 1779 from His Sicilian Majesty")
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.jpg "Dance Scene and Popular Party in Naples (detail) by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Fete at Naples on the Occasion of the Marriage of King Ferdinand I (1751-1825) to the Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria (1752-1814) by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Dance scene and popular party in Naples (detail) by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Kenneth Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth, 1744 by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "A Panoramic View of Naples, the Bay of Naples, Portici, Vesuvius, the Sorrento Peninsula and Capri from the Conocchia by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Interior of the Cone of Vesuvius Before the 1767 Eruption (plate 9 from")
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.jpg "The erupting Vesuvius. This gouache was carried out by Pierre Fabris, at the request of Sir William Hamilton, English ambassador to Naples. Bibl. Braidense, Milan by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Stones of Crystals Called Gems of Mount Vesuvius, Plate LIIII, from")
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 published 1776 (hand colou - (MeisterDrucke-202293).jpg "Lava, Scoria, and Pumice stones of Mount Vesuvius, Plate LI, from")
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.jpg "Piece of marble composed of fragments of various sorts of marble found in the Fossa Grande, Plate 47: from")
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.jpg "Plate X from Campi Phlegraei: Observations of the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies by William Hamilton by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Scenes of Everyday Life in a Cave in Posillipo, near Naples by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "View of Hamilton Escorting Their Sicilian Majesties to Observe the Lava Flow from the Great Eruption of Vesuvius, Plate 38 from")
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.jpg "Fragments of Volcanic matter from Mount Vesuvius after the eruption of 8th August 1779, Plate V, supplement to")
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.jpg "View of the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Sunday night August 8th 1779 from His Sicilian Majesty")
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.jpg "The erupting Vesuvius. This gouache was carried out by Pierre Fabris, at the request of Sir William Hamilton, English ambassador to Naples. Bibl. Braidense, Milan. by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Specimens of curious stones found by the Author on Mount Vesuvius, Plate XXXXVIII, from")
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.jpg "View from the top of Monte Gauro or Barbaro into its crater, Plate XXVIII, from")
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.jpg "Plate VI from Campi Phlegraei: Observations of the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies by William Hamilton by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "View of the Island of Stromboli taken by Monsieur Fabris, Plate XXXVII, from")
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.jpg "View of the Italian Coast from Near Puzzoli, Plate 26 from")
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.jpg "Specimens of a Curious Volcanic Matter Taken from a Hollow Road Leading from Pisciarelli to the Solfaterra, Plate XXXXIII, from")
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.jpg "View Taken from the Bottom of the Crater of Monte Nuovo, Plate XXVII, from")
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.jpg "The erupting Vesuvius (gouache by Pierre Fabris at the request of Sir William Hamilton) by Pietro Fabris")
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_I_-_(MeisterDrucke-1093913).jpg "Procession of the Royal Ships at Posillipo, Naples by Pietro Fabris")
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_Naples_Detail_of_aristocrats_picnicking_-_(MeisterDrucke-1022635).jpg "Banquet scene in Posillipo, Naples (detail) by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Specimens of volcanic matter taken from the inside of the crater of Vesuvius (Plate XXXXIV, from")
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.jpg "Interior View of One of the Deepest Hollow Ways Cut by the Torrents of the Rain Water on the Flanks of Mount Vesuvius, Plate XXXIX, from")
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.jpg "View of the Lake Avernus from the Road Between Puzzoli and Cuma, Plate XXIX, from")
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.jpg "View of a hollow road leading from the Grotto of Pausilipo to Pianura, Plate XXXX, from")
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.jpg "Productions of the Solfaterra, Plate 9 from")
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.jpg "Part of the Cone of the Mountain of Somma, Plate 15 from")
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 published 1776 (hand coloured engraving) - (MeisterDrucke-196067).jpg "Specimens of Volcanic Matter, from")
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.jpg "View of a Part of the Inside of the Cone of the Mountain of Somma, Plate XXXV, from")
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.jpg "View of the Great Eruption of Mount Vesuvius on Sunday Night August 8th 1779 by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Vitrifications, and other Volcanic productions, Plate LII, from")
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.jpg "Excavations of a Thick Stratum of Lava which Ran into the Sea during the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1631, plate 8 from")
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.jpg "Eruption of Mount Vesuvius from 8th July to 29th October, 1767, from")
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.jpg "Ordinary People Having Lunch in Front of the Grotto by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "View of the Present State of the Little Mountain Raised by the Explosion in the Year 1760, Plate XIII, from")
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.jpg "Plate IX from Campi Phlegraei: Observations of the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies by William Hamilton by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Scenes of Everyday life in a Cave in Posillipo (detail) by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "View of Mount Vesuvius from the sea shore, from")
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.jpg "Specimens of volcanic matter found in the crater of Vesuvius, Plate XXXXVI, from")
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.jpg "Plate XXXVIII from Campi Phlegraei: Observations of the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies by William Hamilton by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "View of the hot spring, Pisciarelli, from a part of the Cone of the Solfaterra by Pietro Fabris")
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_detail_-_(MeisterDrucke-1091430).jpg "Breakfast by the sea, by Pietro Fabbris (detail) by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Scene of everyday life in Posillipo cave, men playing cards, by Pietro Fabris by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Specimen of the lavas of Vesuvius polished, Plate XXXXIX, from")
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.jpg "The Possessive Neapolitan by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "View of Hamilton escorting their Sicilian majesties to observe the lava flow by Pietro Fabris")
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_Detail_Painting_by_Pietr_-_(MeisterDrucke-960743).jpg "A fish seller and a couple (detail) by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "The Sicilian Royals Visiting Vesuvius During Eruption of 11 May 1771, by Pietro Fabris by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Kenneth Mackenzie by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "A Shipowner and a Lady (detail) by Pietro Fabris")
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.jpg "Specimens of Tufas from the quarrys near the Grotta of Pausilipo, Plate XXXXII, from")
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