Pietro Fabris
Illustration — Uncovering Ruins of Temple of Isis at Pompeii • Illustration — Phlegrean Fields after Eruption of Vesuvius 1760-1761 Pietro Fabris (active 1740 – 1792) was a painter of Italian descent, active in England and Naples. Pietro is best known for work he completed for the dilettante geologist, the diplomat Sir William Hamilton, which included a number of engravings based on his paintings that depicted contemporary volcanic activity collected in two books, Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, &c. (London, 1774) and Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies (Naples, 1776).
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Pietro Fabris
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- 1740 · Naples.
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- 1792
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Illustration — Uncovering Ruins of Temple of Isis at Pompeii • Illustration — Phlegrean Fields after Eruption of Vesuvius 1760-1761 Pietro Fabris (active 1740 – 1792) was a painter of Italian descent, active in England and Naples. Pietro is best known for work he completed for the dilettante geologist, the diplomat Sir William Hamilton, which included a number of engravings based on his paintings that depicted contemporary volcanic activity collected in two books, Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, &c. (London, 1774) and Campi Phlegraei: Observations on the Volcanoes of the Two Sicilies (Naples, 1776).
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Born at Naples in 1740, died in 1792.
Subjects and genres recorded for the work are genre. Places of work recorded in the authority are Naples. Work by Pietro Fabris is recorded in the collections of National Galleries Scotland, Scottish National Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum, Compton Verney Art Gallery and Wellcome Collection.
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