French, 1823-1881  Related Paintings of Merle, Hugues :. | The Two Sisters (mk05) | Unknow work 8 | The wonder of the accession of the breads and fish | The Gulf Stream (mk44) | Visitation |
Related Artists:
Michel Gobin
painted Junger Mann mit Pfeife in 1681
Mura, Francesco de
Italian, 1696-1782 Italian painter. He was educated initially in the workshop of Domenico Viola at Naples, but in 1708 he entered the school of Francesco Solimena, whose favourite pupil and most trusted collaborator he became. At first he followed closely Solimena's monumental Baroque manner, as in the frescoes (1715) in S Nicola alla Carit? in Naples, but later developed a more controlled and refined style of rhythmical lines, light and airy colours and delicate psychological overtones. He employed this new style in his ten canvases of the Virtues and his vast Adoration of the Magi (all 1728; Naples, S Maria Donnaromita) and, above all, in his frescoes of the Adoration of the Magi in the apsidal dome of the church of the Nunziatella, Naples (1732; in situ). De Mura was also active as a portrait painter; his Portrait of the Artist's Wife
Sir Edward john Poynter,Bart.PRA,RWS
1836-1919