19th C Oil on Canvas of Florence Italy

19th C Oil on canvas which very much reminds us of the German artist Oswald Achenbach. 

This is a stunning 19th century oil depicting a vivid view of Florence with the Cathedral Santa Maria, the famous Duomo looming on the horizon.

 19th C 

Oil on canvas

20 x 29 cm.

£400

We believe the painting  could be by Oswald Achenbach (German: 2 February 1827 – 1 February 1905) a German painter associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. Though little known today, during his lifetime he was counted among the most important landscape painters of Europe. Through his teaching activities, he influenced the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His brother, Andreas Achenbach, who was twelve years older, was also among the most important German landscape painters of the 19th century. The two brothers were humorously called "the A and O of Landscapes" (a reference to their initials matching a common German reference to the Alpha and Omega).