WRIGHT, Joseph
(b. 1734, Derby, d. 1797, Derby)

View of Lake Nemi

1790-95
Oil on canvas, 46 x 65 cm
Private collection

This view of Lake Nemi, looking south east across the Campagna towards Mount Circeo on the coast, is one of a series of views by Wright of lakes Nemi and Albano from the early 1790s. Wright travelled in Italy between 1773 and 1775. His experience of the Italian landscape had a profound impact on his work and inspired many of his greatest paintings in the latter years of his life.




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