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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:: 5674
Venice: Riva degli Schiavoni ff
1730-33
Pen and ink over pencil on paper, 196 x 309 mm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5675
Venice: The Canale di San Marco with the Bucintoro at Anchor f
1730-33
Pen and ink over pencil on paper, 268 x 376 mm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5676
The Arsenal: the Water Entrance g
1730-33
Pen and ink on paper, 271 x 372 mm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5677
Grand Canal: Looking North-East from Santa Croce to San Geremia vf
c. 1732
Pen and ink on paper, 270 x 377 mm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5678
Roofs and Chimneys in Venice ff
1730s
Pen and ink with wash on paper, 303 x 438 mm
British Museum, London
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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: | Joseph Wolf | Abu l Faraj al Isfahani | Carl Friedrich Lessing | alexej von jawlenskij | Willy Baron von Plessen |
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