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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:: 18916
Venice: The Feast Day of St. Roch
1735, The National Gallery at London
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Painting ID:: 18917
Piazza San Marco- Looking Southeast
1735-40, National Gallery of Art at Washington D.C.
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Painting ID:: 18920
Warwick Castle- The East Front
1748-49, Birmigham City Museum and Art Gallery
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Painting ID:: 21836
The Basin of San Marco on Ascension Day (mk08)
c.1735-1741
Oil on canvas
121.9x182.8cm
London,National Gallery
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Painting ID:: 21914
The Courtyard of the Castle of Warwick (mk08)
1751
Oil on canvas
75x122cm
Warwick,Duke of Warwick Collection
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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: | Ivan Shishkin | MacDonald, Daniel | Jacobus Theodorus Abels | John William Godward | George Edmund Butler |
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