Pietro Fabris liked to be known as ‘the English painter ‘, a term which reflected his clientele rather than his nationality. He produced a large quantity of picturesque scenes - chiefly of Naples - for the British market. He exhibited his work in London at the Free Society in 1769 and the Society of Artists in 1772. Two of his most famous paintings, showing two interior scenes of a room in the house of Lord Fortrose in Naples, are in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
