ALEXIO DE MARCHIS (Naples, c. 1710 - Perugia, 1752) Fantasy harbour view Snowy landscape Oil on canvas applied to panel, diam. 33 cm (2) Inscribed on verso: Del Sig. Alessio de Marchis. The paintings show Alessio De Marchis' stylistic signature, made up of vibrant, pasty and rapid brushstrokes and the figurines resolved in spots. The author's Roman training and Rossio's suggestions are also evident, but in this case the quality is even more evident thanks to the beautiful conservation, which allows us to grasp the perspective depths of the landscapes and the luminosity constructed with skilful colour transitions. Biographical information on the artist is provided by Nicola Pio and Abbot Lanzi, who say he was in Rome around 1702 in the workshop of Rosa da Tivoli, another important protagonist of landscape painting in Lazio. He then moved to Urbino to fresco the palace of Cardinal Annibale Albani, probably around 1730. The works illustrated here are therefore datable to his maturity, when the influences of Roman landscape painting, expressed through rapid and blotchy brushstrokes, were diluted through an 18th century language that De Marchis expresses with singular personality and pre-Romantic hints, Venetian-style sensibility and Neapolitan reminiscences. Scrolling through the corpus outlined by Busiri Vici and Andrea Emiliani, we perceive the same chromatic tonalities, a homogeneous illustrative taste and a similar painterly manner. Reference bibliography: A. Busiri Vici, Roman Landscape Triptych of the 18th century. Paolo Anesi, Paolo Monaldi, Alessio De Marchis, Rome 1976, ad vocem A. Emiliani, Alessio De Marchis and his Workshop, Bologna 1992, ad vocem A. Cerboni Baiardi, Alessio De Marchis, in La pittura di paesaggio in Italia. Il Settecento, edited by A. Ottani Cavina and E. Calbi, Milan 2005, pp. 174-175 Alessio De Marchis paesaggista del '700 dalla collezione Poggi, exhibition catalogue edited by F. Petrucci, Sassoferrato 2018, ad vocem