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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:: 44419
the Old Horse Guards and Banqueting Hall, from St James-s Park
1749
Oil on canvas,
45,5 x 76 cm
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Painting ID:: 44420
Looking South-West
1755-59
Oil on canvas,
67,3 x 102 cm
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Painting ID:: 44421
Looking South-East from the Campo Santa Sophia to the Rialto Bridge
c. 1756
Oil on canvas,
119 x 185 cm
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Painting ID:: 44422
Looking East from the South West Corner
c. 1760
Oil on canvas,
45 x 35 cm
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Painting ID:: 52340
Piazza San Marco
1723-24 Oil on canvas, 141,5 x 204,5 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: | Felice Casorati | Jacques de letin | Karoly Marko the Elder | HOLBEIN, Ambrosius | Theodore Rousseau |
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