View from the Artist no.12 - answer
November 2 2012
Picture: National Trust
Thanks for all your guesses. Most of you were pretty close, as the subject matter was a bit of a giveaway:
Can't think where a pastoral scene can lie outwith a city in a semi ruinous state. So I am going to guess that it is Jerusalem and there is something of a saintly nature going on in the section that is concealed. I would go Flemish but would want to research this if my baked potato were not sitting on the table in the distance.
Another reader wrote:
Could you possibly expand the detail (not to blind your readers) and to see if someone spot something in the ruins that helps to establish which one it is?
No cheating!
This was amongst the early correct answers:
Artist's view no. 12 is the Jakob Ph. Hackert [Excavations at Pompeii] from Attingham Park [in Shropshire], 1799.
Do I win a cruise now?
Alas, AHN's prize fund is in negative equity. At least one reader was thrilled to be right:
I'm elated to say that I came [up] with the answer: it's from Hackert's Ruins of Pompeii, Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection.
The picture is currently on display at the Getty Centre in Malibu. Not sure why.
Update - a reader alerts me to the current Pompeii exhibition at the Getty.
