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 Paintings of Canaletto :. | Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio | Piazza S.Marco verso la basilica,dall'angolo nord-oves (mk21) | Arrival of the French Ambassador in Venice (detail) d | The Molo with the Library and the Entrance to the Grand Canal f | The Fonteghetto della Farina |
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Attributed to Wilkie
painted The Christmas Party 1850
Luigi Querena
Italian, 1820-1887
Lemaire, Jean
1763-64, oil on canvas, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg