Massa, Bay of Naples

Artist
nationality
British
birth-death
1830-1902
Creation date
Collection
European
Materials
oil on canvas
Dimensions
34 3/4 x 51 1/4 in.
Currently On View
Location
Norb & Ruth Schaefer, Sr. and Norb & Carolyn Schaefer Jr. Gallery
Credit line
James E. Roberts Fund
Accession number
64.14
Provenance
Provenance Research is on-going at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and information will be added to this record as research is completed. Please contact Annette Schlagenhauff, Assoc. Curator of Research, at aschlagenhauff@imamuseum.org with any questions.
Gallery Label

This sparkling coastal view is one of the few landscapes in this gallery by an English painter. John Brett was associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of British artists who admired the sincerity of late-medieval art. They worked with painstaking accuracy, based on careful observation. Brett even became a respected student of natural phenomena.

While Brett's Italian seascape glows with brilliant color and luminosity, it does not rely on an Impressionist approach. Brett's image is rendered in minute detail, with precise brushstrokes. In the distance he offers a glimpse of the isle of Capri.

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