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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:: 21915
Regatta on the Canale Grande (mk08)
1735
Oil on canvas
117x186cm
London,National Gallery
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Painting ID:: 21916
Campo San Vitale and Santa Maria (mk08)
c.1726/27
Oil on canvas
123.8x162.9cm
London,National Gallery
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Painting ID:: 22745
A View of the Ducal Palace in Venice (mk21)
Oil on canvas 20 1/16 x 32 11/16 in(51 x 83 cm)
Uffizi,Gallery
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Painting ID:: 22746
Capriccio con un ponte di Rialto immaginario e altri edifici (mk21)
1744
Olio su tela,60 x 82 cm
Galleria Nazionale,Parma
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Painting ID:: 22747
Capriccio con i cavalli della basilica posti sulla Piazzetta (mk21)
1743
Olio su tela,108 x 129.5 cm
Royal Collection Windsor Castle,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: | Samuel Palmer,OWS | HONDECOETER, Melchior d | MEULEN, Adam Frans van der | Jean Baptiste van Loo | Charles Livingston Bull |
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