Caspar Andriaans van Wittel
1653 – 1736
Dutch painter, known in Italy as Gaspare Vanvitelli. He received his first training at Amersfoort, Holland, although he was in Rome by the time of the Jubilee of 1675. He worked as a draughtsman on a scheme for regulating the Tiber and this probably gave him the idea of making large and very accurate topographical drawings which could be worked up into 'vedute '; he therefore be the link between Dutch topographical painters like van der Heyden and later Italian 'vedutisti'.
31 artworks in collection
Locations
Works
Rome: View of the River Tiber with the Ponte Rotto and the Aventine Hill
Private collection1680
Rome: A View of the Port of Ripa Grande (detail)
Private collection1690
Castel Sant'Angelo from the South
Private collection1690
Rome: A View of the Port of Ripa Grande
Private collection1690
A View of Tivoli
Private collection1691
View of Naples
Private collection1700
View of the Bay of Pozzuoli
Private collection1700
Landscape with the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati
Private collection1700
View of Florence
Private collection1700
Landscape with the Villa Farnese at Caprarola
Private collection1700
The Island of San Michele, Looking toward Murano
Private collection1700
View of Rome
Private collection1707
Verona: A View of the River Adige at San Giorgio in Braida
Private collection1710
Rome: View of the Arch of Titus
Private collection1710
Bacino di San Marco
Private collection1710
Bacino di San Marco (detail)
Private collection1710
St Peter's in Rome
Private collection1711
Villa Farnese at Caprarola
Private collection1720
Rome: A View of The Colosseum
Private collection
Rome: View of St Peter's and the Vatican Seen from Prati Di Castello
Private collection
Rome: A View of the Ponte Salario
Private collection
Rome: The Ponte Sisto
Private collection