Karl Friedrich Schinkel

[Cetti]

I am trying to find a particular painting by this artist - I don't know the name, but it's a fairytale/gothic type of castle which juts into the sea - an evening sky with light illuminated around the castle, and a group of figures on the shore. I've searched the internet, but so far, no luck. It was in the National Gallery for a time.

[mikewall01]

Is the picture that you refer to his view to the amphitheatre and the city of Pola ? Check it at this link then post an answer ---- http://www.istrianet.org/istria/archives/schinkel/
index.htm

[Cetti]

No mike - it's a difficult one I know, but it is a proper oil painting - very dark, full of atmosphere - almost ghostly. The gothic, turretted castle is practically in silhouette. You can see the dark blue evening sky with the disappearing daylight caught around the outline of the castle.

[Squirrel]

Is this the one you mean?

http://classica.dadacasa.supereva.it/images/gothic
.jpg

It was painted in 1815 and is called "Gotische Kirche auf einem Felsen am Meer" (something to do with a church on a rock at the sea.) I can't seem to find any better resolution images of it at the moment.

[Squirrel]

There is also this one, which is very similar:

http://www.neue-pinakothek.org/explorer/images/run
dgang/08.jpg

"Dom �ber einer Stadt"("Cathedral over a city") painted in about 1830.

[Cetti]

Yes Squirrel - that's the one !! It's the church on a rock!

I did have the whole page image via the National Gallery, but sadly, as I said it's somewhere else, and I cannot trace it.

[Cetti]

Sorry Squirrel - I forgot to say "Thank you!".

[Squirrel]

Thank the wondrous power of Google.

[Cetti]

......and thank you wondrous power :-D