In the spring of 1788, King Ferdinand IV of Bourbon sent the painter, Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737-1807), to Apulia to capture in paintings and drawings all of the ports of the three furthest eastern provinces of the Kingdom of Naples: Capitanata, Terra di Bari and Terra di Otranto. The series of views, intended for the Villa Favorita in Resina, continues with landscapes of Sicily, Calabria and Campania, exhibited in the following rooms. The task, entrusted to Hackert, is a reminder of the celebrated commission by Louis XV, King of France, to the painter Claude Joseph Vernet, who created the views of the ports of France.