Lively Landscape, 18th Century. Attributed To Johann Balthazar Bullinger I. Swiss School.

Oil on canvas painted in the 18th century and attributed to Johann Balthazar Bullinger I (relined). It depicts a mountain landscape with a river and figures. Johann Balthazar Bullinger I the Elder was a famous Swiss painter known for his animated landscapes and engravings. He was born in 1713 in Langnau and died in 1793 in Zurich. Balthazar Bullinger was a pupil of Melchior Füssli and Johann Simmler. He also studied in Italy with Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Upon returning to Switzerland, he stayed successively in Zurich, Solothurn, Neuchâtel, and Bern, visited Düsseldorf in 1738, and spent three years in Amsterdam. In 1742, he returned to Zurich, where he married and settled permanently, executing decorations in private homes and also working extensively as an engraver. He produced over four hundred views of Switzerland from nature, a collection of landscapes after J.F. Ermels and Fel. Meyer, and original drawings. Because they were more aware of the grandeur or the picturesqueness of the Swiss nature that surrounded them, Bullinger was among those Swiss landscape painters who, often under the guise of idyllic or pastoral scenes, were able, far better than the 18th-century Germans, to convey a true feeling for nature. The painting is in very good condition, well framed, and ready to hang. Dimensions without frame: 56 cm x 42 cm. Framed: 67 cm x 55 cm.