Carlo Bonavia (? - Naples post 1788) River landscape with fire Oil on canvas 117 x 91 cm Interesting comparisons can be made by looking at the works published from p. 244 to p. 248 of the volume Neapolitan Views of the Eighteenth Century edited by Nicola Spinosa and Leonardo di Mauro, in particular with work 61 with the cliff and the tree divelto and with work 67 where we find the same tower on the right. Of Carlo Bonavia we have few certain dates, which allow us to indicate him active in Naples between 1755 and 1788. To date, his first work, dated 1755, is a Landscape with Waterfall, preserved in Naples at the Capodimonte Museum. His two artistic mentors were Joseph Vernet and Adrien Manglard, whose views and seascapes were soon taken up by Bonavia and other French and non-French artists as prototypes for the production of Neapolitan views and landscapes in the second half of the 18th century. Neither his focus on Salvator Rosa nor his seascapes and the hard-working humanity of the characters should be omitted. Bonavia is a figure to be included among the most skilled and modern landscape painters of the mid-eighteenth-century Neapolitan period. He was the only one who, thanks to his brilliant chromatic solutions and expressive facility, had an international carat and comparable to the avant-garde French expressions. Carlo Bonavia (? - Naples post 1788) River Landscape With Fire Oil on canvas 117 x 91 cm Interesting comparisons can be made by observing the artworks published from page 244 to page 248 of the volume Vedute napoletane del Settecento edited by Nicola Spinosa and Leonardo di Mauro, in particular with artworks n. 61 with the cliff and the uprooted tree and with artwork n. 67 where we find the same tower on the right.