Jacob A. Jacobs, 1812 Antwerpen – 1879 ebenda

COASTAL PIECE IN CONSTANTINOPLE Oil on wood. 62 x 79 cm. Signed and dated "Jacob Jacobs 1842" lower right. In ornamentally decorated frame. From an elevated vantage point with the ruins of a tower lying in shadow, in front of which a shepherd is driving his flock, the view falls into the valley towards the town, the calm blue sea with a few ships and the high, almost entirely yellow sky and the sun reflected in the water. On the left side of the painting, a massive fortress with newly erected minarets can be seen in the background, while the city center with the Hagia Sophia is visible in the foreground. On the right-hand edge of the picture, another fortress is depicted on the hill in bright sunlight. It is only at second glance that an armed old man with a long rifle can be seen in front of a slightly hidden large cannon and two horizontal cannon barrels in the shaded left foreground. A high-quality, painterly, romantic view of Constantinople. The artist exhibited at the Antwerp Salon from 1833. From 1845 at the Royal Academy in London. Paintings by his hand in several important collections of the high nobility as well as in public museums such as in Antwerp, Weimar and Munich. (14023237) (10) Jacob A. Jacobs, 1812 Antwerp - 1879 ibid. COASTAL SCENE OF CONSTANTINOPLE Oil on panel. 62 x 79 cm. Signed and dated "Jacob Jacobs 1842" lower right.