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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:: 41179
The Bucintoro in Front of the Doges- Palace on Ascension Day
mk157
1729
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Painting ID:: 42731
named Canaletto Venetie, the Bacino Tue S. Marco on Hemelvaartsdag
MK169
1732-35 Shut down 76.8x116.8cm
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Painting ID:: 43256
Venice The Feast Day of Saitn Roch
mk170
circa 1735
Oil on canvas
147.7x199.4cm
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Painting ID:: 43257
Campo S.Vidal and Santa Maria della Carita
mk170
1727-1728
Oil on canvas
123.8x162.9cm
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Painting ID:: 43258
Eton College
mk170
circa 1754
Oil on canvas
61.6x107.7cm
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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: | Peter von Cornelius | John Rogers Herbert | Samuel Finley Breese Morse | Ostade, Isaack Jansz. van | Nathaniel Dance |
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