The Painting Collection

One of the Residence’s apartments also houses Sicily's largest private collection of paintings from the Grand Tour period from 1800 to 1930 depicting scenes of Sicily and Taormina in particular.

The collection includes works by the following painters:

Charles King Wood, Carl Von Häberlin, Carl Kappstein, Viggo Langer, P. Gerard, Guyet, Renavier Julien, Carl Friedrich Werner, Louise Fripp, Alfred Julius Cäsar Böhm, Niels Emil Holm, Salomon Corrodi, Hans Busse, Robert Hawthorne Kitson, Johann Theodor Goldstein, Arthur Rowe, Angelo Geleng, Otto Friedrich Geleng, Victor Gustav Cousin, Walter Spencer Tyrwhitt, Rudolf Sieck, Conrad H.R. Carelli, Anna Richards Brewster, Hilda Mary Sides, Walter Crane, Edward Harrison Compton, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Samuel Williamson, Lily Giachery, Max Friedrich Rabes, Max Rappaport, Heinrich Hermanns, Severin Segelcke, Felix Kasimierz Wygrzywalski, Imre Gergely, Carl Christian Bowedt, Ernst Oscar, John Houston, Michael Zeno Diemer, H. Warncke, Charles Vacher, George Farquhar Pennington, F. R. Fitzgerald, Lydia Longacre, W. Wagner, Anne Dorrien Smith, Samuel.Alfred Harding, Gaetano Barbagallo, Teodoro Duclere, Hermann Corrodi, Alfredo Lazzari, Gustaf Wilhelm Palm, Giovanni Pinotti, Metz Friedrich, Carl Maria Nicolaus Hummel, Augustus John Cuthbert Hare, Augusto Moriani, Peder Mork Mönsted, Knobloch Josef Rolf, Viggo Langer, Georg Macco, Pablo Salinas, Theo Goedvriend, Carl Frederik Aagaard, Enoch Wood Perry, Robert Kummer, Carlo Siligato, Andrea Sottile, Andrea Petersen, Alois Schönn, Max Merker, Alexander Friedrich Werner, Friedrich Thöming, Christian Wilberg, Wynand Otto Jan Nieuwenkamp, Thomas Miles II Richardson.

The gallery is open to guests of the Residence by prior appointment only.

24 of these works were presented in December 2024 as part of the Grand Tour painting exhibition "I colori dello stupore" in Taormina.