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Canaletto
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.
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Painting ID:: 5648
The Thames and the City fcf
1746-47
Oil on canvas
National Gallery, Prague
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Painting ID:: 5649
London: Whitehall and the Privy Garden from Richmond House f
1747
Oil on canvas, 106,7 x 116,8 cm
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5650
London: The Thames and the City of London from Richmond House g
1747
Oil on canvas, 105 x 117,5 cm
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5651
London: The Thames and the City of London from Richmond House (detail) d
1747
Oil on canvas
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5652
Warwick Castle: the South Front df
1748
Oil on canvas, 75 x 120,5 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid
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Canaletto
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: | Pawel Andrejewitsch Fedotow | Gustaf Fjaestad | Alfred Seifert | Francis Coates Jones | Jules Coignet |
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