General Garibaldi's Residence at Caprera

Frederick Richard Lee executed the oil painting General Garibaldi's Residence at Caprera in 1865. Created on canvas, the work measures 87 cm in height and 138.1 cm in width. The piece depicts a landscape view of the residence associated with the Italian general.

Today, the painting is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it remains part of their permanent holdings.

Frederick Richard Lee painted General Garibaldi's Residence at Caprera in 1865, an oil on canvas work measuring 87 cm by 138.1 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the painting in its collection, listed under inventory number 1983.155. It was part of the exhibition "Nineteenth-Century European Landscape Painting" at the museum in 1983.

Frederick Richard Lee painted General Garibaldi's Residence at Caprera in 1865, a landscape reflecting his engagement with Romantic ideals and the political turbulence of the Italian unification movement.

The work is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection, underscoring its significance within 19th-century British landscape painting and its resonance with contemporary scholarly discourse on national identity and revolutionary symbolism.

Art historians view the painting as emblematic of Lee's broader oeuvre, situating it within the context of Victorian artistic responses to geopolitical change and the evolving genre of historical landscape.

Its reception has been shaped by its dual role as both a topographical record and a symbolic narrative, influencing later interpretations of artistic representation in relation to political figures.

Frederick Richard Lee’s 1865 oil painting, General Garibalni’s Residence at Caprera, presents a tranquil coastal landscape that now belongs to the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work captures a modest white structure with a slender steeple perched on a grassy rise, set against a gently undulating shoreline and distant hills.