# The Mole at Portici [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [REBELL, Joseph]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 38 x 55 cm ## Commentary Rebell's landscape works show the strong influence of English and French landscape painters - artists who Rebell met while in Italy - and their penchant for realism. Although his landscapes have a rather understated emotionality they nevertheless demonstrate a certain atmospheric quality that places Rebell in the company of the early landscape realists. In Rebell's work, idealistic composition and heroic staffage groupings are replaced by scenes filled with serenity and sensitive light plays. ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()