The Sicilian Vespers is the title of three works by the Italian artist Francesco Hayez, all showing the outbreak of the Sicilian Vespers.
Measuring 150×200 cm, the first version was commissioned by marchioness Visconti d'Aragona. Hayez produced it in the Brera studio in Milan in 1822.. The second version measures 91×114 cm and was commissioned in 1826-1827 by count Arese, recently released from prison. Both these versions are now in private collections, whilst the third version (225×300 cm) produced in 1846 is now in the Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna e contemporanea in Rome - this version was produced for Vincenzo Ruffo, principe di Sant'Antimo, Hayez's main patron - it and a portrait of Ruffo's wife Sarah Louise Strachan Ruffo were two of several produced for him while Hayez was staying in the Ruffo family home in Naples. .
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