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According to Giancarlo Sestieri this “Arcadian landscape” is a “qualitative testimony” to Francesco Zuccarelli’s painting during the influence of Marco Ricci, a Venetian landscape painter, who was decisive in ours after his move to Venice in 1732, where in 1736 he was already a member of the Fraglia, a guild of painters.
Zuccarelli made a fundamental contribution to the arcadian landscape genre, at that time also a literary genre, and his success was such that, under the protection of the English consul J. Smith, he moved to London where five years later he became a member of the Free Society as a sign of his success. In 1762 he returned to Venice and was “acclaimed” as a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, but in 1764 he returned again to London, spending a decade there and becoming a member of the Royal Academy, participating in all its exhibitions. In 1764 he left London, moving permanently to Florence, protected by the collector F. M. Gaburri, remaining there until his death.