Italian Rococo Era Painter, C.1721-1780
Italian painter and draughtsman. He was a view painter who worked in Italy and later at the courts of Dresden, Vienna, Munich and Warsaw. The nephew and almost certainly the pupil of Canaletto, outside Italy he signed his works de Canaletto and hence became known as Canaletto. He painted both topographical and imaginary views in a style independent of his uncle's, distinguished by cold colour and by the austere geometry of architectural masses. Related Paintings of Bernardo Bellotto :. | Courtyard of the Castle at Kaningstein from the South. | Wilanow Palace seen from the entrance. | Dresden from the Right Bank of the Elbe above the Augustus Bridge | View of Verona and the River Adige from the Ponte Nuovo | Ansicht von Dresden, Der Altmarkt von der Seegasse aus | Related Artists:
William BradfordAmerican Painter, 1823-1892
John Currey MarinAmerican artist ,
b.1870 d.1953
LargillierreParis 1656-1746
French painter. Following his early training in Antwerp and London, he established himself in Paris, becoming one of the most successful portrait painters of the second half of Louis XIV's reign. Although Largillierre was patronized by the Court, most of his sitters came from the wealthy middle classes; by the end of his career he had produced (by conservative estimates) some 1500 portraits. In 1734-5 and again in 1738-42 he was Directeur of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.