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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:: 5684
Capriccio with a Portico vgd
Etching
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5685
London: the Thames and the City of London from the Terrace of Richmond House ff
c. 1747
Pen and ink with wash on paper, 337 x 540 mm
Private collection
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Painting ID:: 5686
London: Westminster Bridge under Repair vv
1749
Pen and ink with wash on paper, 293 x 484 mm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5687
Piazza San Marco: Looking East from the South West Corner dfd
c. 1760
Pen and ink with wash on paper, 190 x 282 mm
Royal Collection, Windsor
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Painting ID:: 5688
San Marco: the Crossing and North Transept, with Musicians Singing df
1766
Pen and ink with washes, 47 x 36 cm
Kunsthalle, Hamburg
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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: | Master of the View of st Gudule | John Morgan | Leon Lhermitte | Lodewijk de Vadder | Franqois Balthazar Solvyns |
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