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Gaspar Van Wittel

      Dutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1653-1736 was a Dutch landscape painter. Van Wittel learned painting in his hometown of Amersfoort. His first extant works were made in Hoorn in 1672, but he relocated to Rome with his family ca. 1675 and made his career there. In Amersfoort, he likely was exposed to Dutch landscape artists such as Jan van der Heyden and Gerrit Berckheyde. He married in Rome in 1697, and stayed most of his life in that city, though, between 1694 and 1710, he toured Italy and painted in places like Florence, Bologna, Ferrara, Venice, Milan, Piacenza and Naples. He is one of the principal painters of topographical views known as vedute. His son Luigi would become a famous architect and also carries the italianized family name of Vanvitelli. In Luigi's biography is written that his father was born in July 1656,

Gaspar Van Wittel View of the River Tiber with the Ponte Rotto and the Aventine Hill USA oil painting artist


View of the River Tiber with the Ponte Rotto and the Aventine Hill
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Painting ID::  98446
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  1680s Medium oil on canvas Dimensions Height: 23 cm (9.1 in). Width: 44 cm (17.3 in).

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