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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:: 43259
London Interior of the Rotunda at Ranelagh
mk170
1754
Oil on canvas
47x75.6cm
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Painting ID:: 44415
View of Campo Santi Apostoli
1730
Oil on canvas,
45 x 77,5 cm
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Painting ID:: 44416
Westminster Bridge from the North on Lord Mayor-s Day
1746
Oil on canvas,
96 x 137,5 cm
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Painting ID:: 44417
London, Seen from an Arch of Westminster Bridge
1747
Oil on canvas,
118 x 238 cm
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Painting ID:: 44418
the Old Horse Guards from St James's Park
1749
Oil on canvas,
117 x 236 cm
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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: | Thomas Chambers | MASSYS, Jan | Ferdinand Max Bredt | Julian Onderdonk | LAWRENCE, Sir Thomas |
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