Monks Fishing

"An 18th or 19th century collection that omitted Salvator Rosa would have been unthinkable. Sir Francis Bourgeois bequeathed three Rosas to Dulwich, only one of which (Soldiers Gambling, DPG 216) is now accepted as autograph.
This fine landscape, however, is clearly in the master’s famous style, with its trademark blasted tree, billowing clouds and tiny figures dwarfed by the grandeur of nature.

To earlier generations, ‘Savage’ Rosa offered one of the archetypes of the tortured genius – touchy, disdainful of patrons, prone to write poetry, and volcanic of temperament."