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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:: 5669
The Piazzetta to the South f
1720s
Drawing
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5670
The Grand Canal Seen from Rialto toward the North ff
1725
Pen and brown ink on paper
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5671
The Grand Canal near the Ponte del Rialto f
c. 1725
Pen and brown ink with red and black chalk on paper
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Painting ID:: 5672
The Piazzetta Looking towards S. Maria della Salute ff
1725-30
Pen and ink over pencil, 233 x 182 mm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5673
The Piazzetta Looking towards the Torre dell Orologio
1725-30
Pen and ink over pencil, 234 x 180 mm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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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: | Jasper Cropsey | John Ford Paterson | Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich | Kerstiaen de Keuninck | Lingelbach, Jan |
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