Please study all photographs carefully to get an accurate representation of the item. We offer in-house shipping internationally (US and rest of the world. Dispatched from the UK). We aim to ship all items within 3-5 working days following receipt of payment. We combine shipping for multiple lots. You are welcome to follow our current & upcoming auctions on Instagram @albinus_auctions One of the most successful Old Masters of the Neapolitan School of Painting during the early 18th century, Francesco Solimena was strongly influenced by the dramatic lighting and tenebrism of earlier Naples-based painters such as Battistello Caracciolo (1578-1635), Lanfranco (1582-1647), Mattia Preti (1613-99) and Luca Giordano (1634-1705). But his style of Baroque art had a greater focus on structure and formal composition, which he absorbed from both Raphael (1483-1520) and classicists like Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), leader of the Bolognese school. Indeed, his wall and ceiling paintings are characterized by a wealth of figures, a dramatic sense of movement, as well as dramatic chiaroscuro. In addition to his mural fresco painting, he produced some exceptional panel paintings in oils, as well as portrait art. Most active in Naples, where he settled in 1674, he made an immense contribution to Neapolitan Baroque Painting, and by the start of the eighteenth century, he had become one of the great international artists, sought after by several European courts. His best Baroque paintings include: Madonna of the Rosary (1680-2, Staatliche Museen, Pruussischer Kulturbesitz, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin); frescoes (1689-90) for the sacristy of S. Paolo Maggiore, Naples; Samson and Delilah (c.1690, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Brunswick); Virgin and Child with St Francis of Paula (c.1705, Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden); the enormous Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple (1725, Gesu Nuovo, Naples); Virgin and Child with St Philip of Neri (1725-30, Capodimonte Museum, Naples); and SS Trinita with Saints (1741) for La Granja near Segovia, Spain.Provenance: an important private collection, London.Dimensions: (unframed canvas) 73.70 x 101.6cm; (framed) 109.2 x 81.3cm.