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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:: 40552
The Feast Day of St Roch
mk156
c.1735
Oil on canvas
147x199cm
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Painting ID:: 40564
View from the Right Bank of the Elbe
mk156
1747
Oil on canvas
133x237cm
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Painting ID:: 41057
The Arrival of the French Ambassador in Venice
mk159
1730s
Oil on canvas
181x259.5cm
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Painting ID:: 41177
Rio dei Mendicanti
mk157
1723
Collezion M.Crespo.Milan
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Painting ID:: 41178
The Molo seen against the zecca
mk157
before 1740
Civiche Raccolte d-Arte Antica Castello Sforzesco
Milan
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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: | Bischoff, Franz | THULDEN, Theodor van | William Hamilton | Abraham Govaerts | MASTER of Hohenfurth |
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