In Naples, Grue produced many ceramic works, especially plates decorated with landscapes or [[Putto|putti]] in the center, and tendril or [[festoon]] borders. Wares were also often signed and dated. In 1736 he returned to his hometown and continued to work until his death in 1746.<ref name=”ref1″>{{cite web|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/grue-francesco-antonio-xaverio-1|title=Francesco Antonio Xaverio Grue Brief Biography|accessdate=2012-07-09}}</ref>
In Naples, Grue produced many ceramic works, especially plates decorated with landscapes or [[Putto|putti]] in the center, and tendril or [[festoon]] borders. Wares were also often signed and dated. In 1736 he returned to his hometown and continued to work until his death in 1746.<ref name=”ref1″>{{cite web|url=http://www.answers.com/topic/grue-francesco-antonio-xaverio-1|title=Francesco Antonio Xaverio Grue Brief Biography|accessdate=2012-07-09}}</ref>
Initially sent to the Seminary of [[Penne, Abruzzo]] to become a priest, but uninterested in liturgy, he became interested in literature. He left to study medicine in Teramo, civil law in Naples, and canon law in Rome. Despite all this training, he gravitated to the arts, and studied in Penne with Giovanni Lavalle. After a stint in [[Urbino]], he developed a focus on decorating ceramics. His depicted [[Genre painting|genre]] or [[Bamboccianti]] themes. Grue headed a tax revolt that broke out in Castelli, Abruzzo in 1716 against the Marchese Francesco Paolo Mendoza when he imposed a tax on the clay used to make majolica. He was jailed for a number of years in Naples, but emerged, and is responsible for painting some of the ceramics at pharmacy of the [[Ospedale degli Incurabili, Naples]]. The ceramics depicted the illnesses treated by the contents of the ceramic jars.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hAlZAAAAYAAJ ”Artisti abruzzesi: pittori, scultori, architetti, maestri di musica” …] By Vincenzo Bindi, (1883); Naples, Comm G De Angelis E Figlio , Tipografi de SM il Re D’Italia, Portamedina all Pignasecca 44. Page 146-147.</ref>
Initially sent to the Seminary of [[Penne, Abruzzo]] to become a priest, but uninterested in liturgy, he became interested in literature. He left to study medicine in Teramo, civil law in Naples, and canon law in Rome. Despite all this training, he gravitated to the arts, and studied in Penne with Giovanni Lavalle. After a stint in [[Urbino]], he developed a focus on decorating ceramics. His depicted [[Genre painting|genre]] or [[Bamboccianti]] themes. Grue headed a tax revolt that broke out in Castelli, Abruzzo in 1716 against the Marchese Francesco Paolo Mendoza when he imposed a tax on the clay used to make majolica. He was jailed for a number of years in Naples, but emerged, and is responsible for painting some of the ceramics at pharmacy of the [[Ospedale degli Incurabili, Naples]]. The ceramics depicted the illnesses treated by the contents of the ceramic jars.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hAlZAAAAYAAJ ”Artisti abruzzesi: pittori, scultori, architetti, maestri di musica” …] By Vincenzo Bindi, (1883); Naples, Comm G De Angelis E Figlio, Tipografi de SM il Re D’Italia, Portamedina all Pignasecca 44. Page 146-147.</ref>
