Painting On Canvas "still Life With Vase Of Flowers And Fruit" Attributed To Gaspar Lopez.

Beautiful oil painting on canvas depicting "Still life with large vase of flowers and fruit". Attributable to the Neapolitan School, the still life that we propose shows close stylistic analogies with the works of Gaspare Lopez, protagonist of 18th century Neapolitan painting and court painter of the Medici family in Florence, particularly appreciated by Grand Duke Gian Gastone and his sister Anna Maria Luisa.
Born in Naples in the last quarter of the seventeenth century (Naples, 1677 - Florence, 1732), Gaspare Lopez was a nature-mortist painter of the late Baroque period. According to the Neapolitan biographer Bernardo De Dominici he began his studies with the painter Andrea Belvedere, and then continued them with Jean-Baptiste Dubuisson. Following the experiences gained with the latter, Lopez oriented himself towards an illusionistic painting which has exquisite outdoor floral triumphs as its subject. Following the successes achieved in the Neapolitan city, Lopez moved to Rome and then to Venice.
After also traveling in Poland, Prussia and Portugal, he returned to Italy and settled in Florence. It is assumed that he arrived in Florence in 1728, the year in which he enrolled at the Accademia del Disegno. His elegant floral compositions immediately had great success with the Medici who appointed him court painter. The lack of important rivals in the grand ducal city contributed to his rise as a flower painter. After the death of Andrea Scacciati in 1710 and that of Bartolomeo Bimbi in 1729, he was much sought after by the Florentine nobles for whom he created refined compositions in which he had merged the experiences he had gained in Naples with those acquired in Tuscany.
Measures 85x74 cm including coeval frame