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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:: 24309
View of London: The Thames from Somerset House towards Westminster (mk25)
1750-1
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Painting ID:: 24310
View of London The Thames from Somerset House towards the City (mk25)
1750-1
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Painting ID:: 29371
The Reception of the French Ambassador in Venice
mk65
1740s
Oil on canvas
71x102"
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Painting ID:: 30614
Wastminster Abbey with the Procession of the Knights of the Order of Bath
mk68
Oil on canvas
London,Westminste Abbey
1750
Britain
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Painting ID:: 30624
Piazza San Marco,Looking Eastwards
mk68
Oil on canvas
Paris,Jacquemart-Andre Museum
c.1760
Italy
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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: | Jean Marc Nattier | TORRENTIUS, Johannes | Pierre Subleyras | Denis van Alsloot | Eugene Grasset |
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