Neapolitan School, Bay of Naples with Vesuvius in Eruption – Late 19th-century oil painting

An original late 19th-century oil painting – Neapolitan School, Bay of Naples with Vesuvius in Eruption.A tranquil late-19th-century Neapolitan School view looking across the Bay of Naples towards the smoking Vesuvius. A lone fisherman tends to his nets in the boat in the foreground; the salmon-pink facades of the Strada del Molo and Castel Sant'Elmo shimmer in the distance.This charming oil painting is a typical example of a Neapolitan School veduta produced for the Grand Tour market in the late 19th century. It shares with the Neapolitan gouaches of the time a simplified use of motif and iconography to communicate the iconic view. The buildings are rendered as brief suggestions of flattened multi-windowed blocks, the foreground figure is anonymous and the boat is rendered with economy and fluidity. The style resembles that of the Neapolitan School artist Count Antonio Coppola (1839–1916), who created numerous Grand Tour views that were highly sought after by European travellers.Oil on canvas on stretchers.