Landscape with a stream, a woman with basket and a man fishing, two boys to the left, after Gaetano Martorelli.

Vivares, François (Lodève 1709-London 1780).

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London, F. Vivares, 1754. Fine large oblong etching and engraving, lettered below the image 'Engraved from a Picture of Martorelli. Martorelli Pinxt. F. Vivares Sculp. Publishd Jany. 15th. 1754, by F. Vivares. 9'. 39 x 49 cm.*Nagler XXIII, 214, No. 54. In database British Museum: 'Landscape with a stream falling around a boulder into a deep pool in the foreground, broadening as it flows away into the right foreground, overshadowed by a steep rocky cliff on the right, covered with bushes and dead tree trunks, a woman carrying a basket and a man fishing on the near bank, two boys further to the left, near a path which winds through a hilly landscape extending into the distance on the left; plate 9 from an unidentified series.'. Second state (of 3), with plate number. François or Francis Vivares, a French and British engraver and publisher, was born in Lodève near Montpellier or in S.Jean de Bruel de Rouergue in 1709, worked in Paris and moved to London in 1727. He had a very high reputation in France and is considered to be one of the founders of the English school of landscape engraving. Gaetano Martorelli, a painter of landscapes from Napoli, was born c. 1670 and died 1723. - Trimmed within plate-mark, lower blank margin slightly thumbed.[(5859)]. Seller Inventory # 5859

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