Louis Bélanger (Attributed), Italianate River Landscape With Ruins, Convent & Fisherman

Louis Bélanger (Attributed), Italianate River Landscape With Ruins, Convent & FishermanThis beautiful early 19th century oil painting attributed to French artist Louis Blanger (1756 1816) depicts an extensive Italianate view with picturesque classical ruins, river, hilltop convent, and figures. Blanger was a distinguished painter of landscapes. Beyond the tinted horizon, a slumberous sun casts its final glow across a scene of untarnished Arcadian bliss. A temple, reminiscent of Tivolis Vesta, stands majestically amid foliage, while a

Knight of the Garter holding alone to himself on the upper ground

Note how the light illuminates the girls as they run along the water’s edge - with their reflections added to the water with a few well-placed marks

Signed/dated in the lower right and held in its original gilt frame with coved sides

1770Provenance: FranceCondition: Areas of craquelure but the paint layer is stable

he met fellow marine painter

His works were shown at the Royal Academy

He studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and exhibited regularly at the Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition

A larger but stylistically comparable piece sold at Christie’s in 1999 for $17

Part of his role involved depicting the track between Paris and the provinces

which was commended by the local press but didn’t achieve acclaim beyond his local region

Nys probably completed this study during his time at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels where he trained between 1859 and 1873

the census of 1911 records her as staying at Carlton Curlieu Manor in Leicestershire with Annie Liddell Best