Jakob Philipp Hackert

Jakob Philipp Hackert (1737-1807) was a German painter who became court painter to the King of Naples, Ferdinand IV, and painted for him the series of the ports of the Kingdom. Goethe, the author of Faust, met him in Naples, took drawing lessons from him and after his death wrote his biography.

In this collection you will find the Port of Messina from the Senate Palace, the Marina Piccola in Sorrento, the View of Cava de' Tirreni, Lake Bracciano, the Royal Family Harvesting at Carditello and Ferdinand IV hunting wild boar, printed on handmade Amalfi paper.

More than half a century earlier, Naples and the Roman countryside had been painted by two artists from the North: Gaspar van Wittel and Jan Frans van Bloemen.