The Castle of Ischia from the Mole, Italy
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| The Castle of Ischia from the Mole, Italy | |
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| Artist | Clarkson Stanfield |
| Year | 1841 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
| Dimensions | 143 cm × 230 cm (56 in × 91 in) |
| Location | Museum and Winter Gardens, Sunderland |
The Castle of Ischia from the Mole, Italy is an 1841 landscape painting by the British artist Clarkson Stanfield. It shows a view of a castle on the island of Ischia in the Tyrrhenian Sea. The work was inspired by a trip Stanfield made to Naples in 1838 where he had made sketches of the island.[1]
The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1841 at the National Gallery in London, where it enjoyed success. It became a widely known image although John Ruskin offered only moderate praise, suggesting "a little more savageness in the sea, would have made it an impressive picture: it just misses the sublime". It subsequently appeared at Salon of 1855 in Paris.[2] The picture is now in the collection of the Museum and Winter Gardens in Stanfield's native Sunderland.[3]
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