THE BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME

Subscribers and Friends are warmly invited to

HERMAN VAN SWANEVELT,
A DUTCH ARTIST IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ROME

a lecture by
Susan Russell
Assistant Director of the British School at Rome

on Monday 21 June 2010, at 6.00 p.m.

at the British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace,
London, SW1Y 5AH

RSVP in case of acceptance to:
The British School at Rome, at The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH;
Tel. 020–7969 5202; E bsr@britac.ac.uk

Herman van Swanevelt (1603–55) was a Dutch landscape painter who achieved success in the highly competitive art world of seventeenth-century Rome, but he is little known today, despite being represented in galleries and museums around the world. This lecture aims to provide an overview of the paintings, drawings and prints he created in the 1630s to provide a clearer impression of his importance as an artist in a city that played host to some of art history’s most famous landscape artists, including Claude Lorrain (c. 1603–82) and Salvator Rosa (1615–73).

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