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Rosa’s dark and foreboding landscapes were popular with eighteenth-century English collectors as they fitted in perfectly with the new taste for the sublime. The bandits depicted in this painting were a common hazard to Grand Tourists in Italy and add to the viewer’s sense of personal danger. Research by Bryony Dawkes revealed that a painting entitled 'Banditti on the Banks of a River' by Salvator Rosa was once owned by William Beckford (1760–1844). It was probably purchased from a Christie's auction in 1802. The auction catalogue includes the short description: 'This Noble Picture and the following were purchased from the Colonna Palace at Rome: the figures are correctly drawn, and finished with uncommon precision and smartness of pencil: The whole painted in a transparent and harmonious Tone of Colour, in the very finest Style and Time of the Master - truly a chef d'oeuvre'.
Title
Banditti on the Bank of a River
Date
1650s
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 70 x W 94.5 cm (E)
Accession number
OP91
Acquisition method
bequeathed by Sir John Williams, 1926
Work type
Painting
Aberystwyth University School of Art Museum and Galleries
School of Art, Museum & Gallery, Buarth Mawr, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 1NG Wales
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