Roaring waves on the Gulf of Naples with a view of Capri, this seascape was executed around 1830s by good listed Polish-German Romantic painter Johann Theodor Goldstein (1798, in Warsaw - 1871 Dresden). He was known as the king's landscape painter but fell into obscurity after 1850.

Born in Warsaw, his childhood and youth remain shrouded in mystery. In 1816, he went to Berlin to study painting, where, under the influence of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, his interest in historical architecture was awakened. In 1821, he moved to Dresden to further his studies under Johan Christian Clausen Dahl. From this time onward, his paintings appeared regularly in exhibitions at the art academies in Dresden and Berlin. They testify to the painter's keen powers of observation and enormous creative energy, making him, alongside Max Hauschild, one of the most important architectural painters in Dresden.

Supported by Prince and later King Frederick Augustus II, as well as by the art collector and patron Johann Gottlob von Quandt, he traveled to Italy in the 1820s to create studies for the Crown Prince, which the latter had commissioned. Even later, as king, Frederick Augustus regularly commissioned works from Johann Theodor Goldstein, earning him the nickname "the King's landscape painter." In 1833, he met the Dresden painter Carl Robert Kummer in Palermo. His landscape paintings, according to contemporary publications, were "full of warmth and gentle sunlight."

With the death of his patron, Frederick Augustus II, he faded from public view and was largely forgotten. Never married, he died alone and weary of old age in Dresden in 1871, although his exact date of death was not known until around 2020.

Literature:Thieme/Becker "Lexicon of artists from antique to contemporary", Leipzig, 1999.

Inscription: signed lover left.

Technique: oil on paper/canvas. Antique style gilt frame.

Measurements: unframed 12 1/4" x 9 5/8"  (31 x 24,5 cm); framed 14 5/8" x 12" (37 x 30,5 cm).

Condition: in  good condition.