Conducted By Hendrik Frans Van Lint, (antwerp, 1684 - Rome, 1763), City View With River

Conducted by Hendrik Frans van Lint, (Antwerp, 1684 - Rome, 1763)

City view with river, boats and bridge in the background

Oil on panel, 14 x 20.5 cm

With frame, cm 21 x 27.5

The Flemish Hendrik Frans van Lint (Antwerp, 1684 - Rome 1763), grandson of the Antwerp vedutist Peter (Antwerp, 1609 - 1690) and father of Giacomo (Rome, 1723 - 1790), although he was born in Flanders and led there the first part of his training, is known above all for his work in the Italian field: the Dutch painter specialized in Rome in the genres of landscape and view. The Roman stay was for van Lint, as well as for many other Nordic artists living in Rome between the 17th and 18th centuries, an indispensable premise to update themselves in art and expand their circle of clients. Hendrik Frans, landscape painter and visual artist, stayed in the papal capital for two thirds of his life: here he gave birth to his son Giacomo, who followed in his father’s footsteps almost exclusively creating views of Rome. In the Urbe Hendrik Frans, known more in Italy as "Lo Studio", became an emulator of the Dutch vedutist Gaspar van Wittel, known in Italy mainly under the pseudonym of Vanvitelli, and realized Roman and Lazial views and landscapes of particular fantasy, following the "ideal" and "classical" poetics of seventeenth-century painting by Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet.