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Creator:
Thomas Jones, 1742–1803
Title:
View of the Campi Flegrei from the Camaldolese Convent near Naples
Former Title(s):

View of the Campi Flegrei from the Camaldolise Convent

View of the Campi Flegrei from the Camaldolise convent, near Naples. [1784, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
Date:
1783
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
50 x 71 1/2 inches (127 x 181.6 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2008.19
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B2008.19FR
Subject Terms:
convent | figures | hills | Italian | landscape | men | mountains | woods
Associated Places:
Campania | Campi Flegrei | Italy | Naples | Napoli
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:58556
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Following in the footsteps of his teacher Richard Wilson, Thomas Jones traveled to Italy in 1776. In 1780 he moved from Rome to Naples and remained there until he returned home in 1783. This painting, a view of the volcanic fields outside Naples, was commissioned by Sir William Hamilton, the celebrated antiquarian, volcanologist, and English envoyextraordinary to the Spanish court at Naples. Hamilton visited Jones’s studio in the summer of 1782 and chose the subject carefully, having recently published his own account of the volcanic fields. Hamilton had only made a partial payment for the picture when he left Naples for London in the spring of 1783; and Jones himself departed for home in the summer of that same year, bringing the painting with him for exhibition. For unknown reasons, it seems the painting was never fully paid for by Hamilton, and it was long thought to have been lost until its recent rediscovery.

Gallery label for A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-06-01 - 2017-08-13)


Following in the footsteps of his teacher Richard Wilson, Thomas Jones traveled to Italy in 1776. In 1780 he moved from Rome to Naples and remained there until he returned home in 1783. This painting, a view of the volcanic fields outside Naples, was commissioned by Sir William Hamilton, the celebrated antiquarian, vulcanologist, and English envoy-extraordinary to the Spanish court at Naples. Hamilton visited Jones’s studio in the summer of 1782 and chose the subject carefully, having recently published his own account of the volcanic fields. Hamilton had only made a partial payment for the picture when he left Naples for London in the spring of 1783, and Jones himself departed for home in the summer of that same year, bringing the painting with him for exhibition. For unknown reasons, it seems the painting was never fully paid for by Hamilton, and it was long thought to have been lost until its recent rediscovery.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016

Advertisement, W/S Fine Art Ltd - Andrew Wyld , Burlington Magazine, vol.149, no.1248, March, 2007, p. xi, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Christie's Sale Catalogue: Important British & Irish Art.: 23 November 2005, Christie's, 2005, pp. 46-49, no. 10, Sales Catalogues (YCBA) [YCBA]

Exhibition Catalogue. 1784. 16th, Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 16, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1784, p. 6, no. 114, N5054 A53 v. 1:2 [ORBIS]

Ian Jenkins, Vases & volcanoes, Sir William Hamilton and his collection , British Museum Press, London, 1996, p. 133, N5247 H25 J45 1996 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Letter to the Editor, Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, Issue no. 4665, April 29, 1784, Film S1460 (SML) Also Available online (December 29, 1770 - March 28, 1789) in 17th-18th Century Burney Collection of Newspapers [ORBIS]

Memoirs of Thomas Jones, Volume of the Walpole Society, Vol. XXXII, 1946-1948, pp.113,115..., N12 W35 A1 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Postscript Exhibition of Paintings, etc. at the Royal Academy, Somerset Place, St. James Chronicle or the British Evening Post, issue no. 3614, May 4, 1784, Available Online (17th-18th Century Burney Coll) Available online in 17th-18th Century Burney Collectioon of Newspapers [ORBIS]

Review of Royal Academy Exhibition, Morning Post and Daily Advertiser, no. 3503, May 1, 1784, p. 3, Film S1460 (SML Microfilm) Also Avaiable Online (ORBIS) [17th-18th Centyury Bruney Collection of Newspapres) [ORBIS]

The Exhibition, Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser, Issue no. 4677, May 13, 1784, Film S1460 (SML Microfilm) Also Available on Line [ December 29, 1770 - March 28, 1789) in 17th-18th Century Burney Collection of Newspapers Database [ORBIS]


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