Artist: Canaletto Painting: The Grand Canal near the Ponte del Rialto f Introduction: c. 1725
Pen and brown ink with red and black chalk on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The Piazzetta Looking towards S. Maria della Salute ff Painting ID:: 5672
Artist: Canaletto Painting: The Piazzetta Looking towards S. Maria della Salute ff Introduction: 1725-30
Pen and ink over pencil, 233 x 182 mm
Royal Collection, Windsor
The Piazzetta Looking towards the Torre dell Orologio Painting ID:: 5673
Artist: Canaletto Painting: The Piazzetta Looking towards the Torre dell Orologio Introduction: 1725-30
Pen and ink over pencil, 234 x 180 mm
Royal Collection, Windsor
Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1697-1768
Italian painter, etcher and draughtsman. He was the most distinguished Italian view painter of the 18th century. Apart from ten years spent in England he lived in Venice, and his fame rests above all on his views (vedute) of that city; some of these are purely topographical, others include festivals or ceremonial events. He also painted imaginary views (capriccios), although the demarcation between the real and the invented is never quite clearcut: his imaginary views often include realistically depicted elements, though in unexpected surroundings, and in a sense even his Venetian vedute are imaginary. He never merely re-created reality. He was highly successful with the English, helped in this by the British connoisseur JOSEPH SMITH, whose own large collection of Canaletto works was sold to King George III in 1762. The British Royal Collection has the largest group of his paintings and drawings.
. Related Artists to Canaletto : | Louis Bleuler | Pagani, Gregorio | Perov, Vasily | Fisher Jonathan | John Frederichk Lewis RA |