© The artist's estate
© The artist's estate
Etna from Taormina; Dawn & Boston Stump; Sunset
Albert Goodwin
- Art Funded
- 1929
- Dimensions
- 1) 19 x 26 cm; 2) 18 x 26 cm
- Bequeathed by
- Rev. William Fothergill Robinson through The Art Fund
© The artist's estate
© The artist's estate
Nominally inspired by Lucretius' De rerum natura, Piero di Cosimo's The Forest Fire takes its scientific subject and embellishes it with fantastical creatures from the artist's imagination: Bulls, bears, lions and deer-like creatures with human faces all flee wearily from a fire.
Rubens' portrait of Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of Arundel dates from about 1629. The Earl was a great collector, and Rubens had painted the earl's wife a few years earlier on a visit to Antwerp. This drawing in pen and ink with a chalk base is unusually informal, reflecting perhaps the comfortable relationship between artist and patron.