Early 19th century painting with ancient figures on the bank of the raging river (Rhein ?) was executed in the style very close to similar paintings by famous German-Austrian romanticist Josef Rebell (1787 Vienna - 1828 Dresden). For comparison see Rebell´s works on our additional images and in wikipedia and google.

Joseph Rebell was a pupil of Michael Wutky at the Vienna Academy. In 1809 he traveled through Switzerland and proceeded thence to Milan, where he resided for two years at the Court of Eugene Beauharnais. Later on he went to Rome, and from 1811 to 1815 he was at the Court of Murat at Naples. What appointed director of the Belvedere Gallery at Vienna. He painted Italian landscapes, three examples of his work being in the Vienna Museum. Others are in the Munich Pinakothek, the Berlin Gallery, and the Parma Gallery. He died at Dresden, December 18, 1828. Joseph Rebell was strongly influenced by the English and French painting (Claude Lorrain) and Joseph Anton Koch, he was in one of the first realists in the landscape paintings of the German-speaking world. He is one of the most important Austrian landscape painter of the 19th Century. Together with Franz Steinfeld, he is considered the founder of a realistic representation of landscape in Austria.

Literature: Prof.H.Fuchs "Dictionary of Austrian painters", Vienna, 1975; Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999.

Inscription: unsigned .

Technique: oil canvas. Classicist style gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed 21 6/8" x 14 1/2" (55 x 37 cm); framed 20 4/5" x 26" (69 x 51,5 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.