The colors used by De Wint for his “Sicilian” paintings are exceptional. Just as his vision of the beauty of our Nature is.
Authored by Peter De Wint Via Paintings
Here we admire “The Ruins of the Theater of Syracuse, view of Sicily” (1821).
De Wint was the son of a doctor of Dutch origin, but was born in Staffordshire where he studied until 1802, when he moved to London, to follow a long apprenticeship with the engraver and portraitist John Raphael Smith, and then moved to the Academy Royal in 1809 and focused on the bucolic representation of natural landscapes mixed with the simple life of villages and hamlets.
He thus came to Italy and Sicily, where he visited Etna and painted the famous “Aetna Crater” (1823).
