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 :. | Mary f | La Chiesa e la scuola della Carita,dal laboratorio di marmi di S.Vitale (mk21) | Arrival of the French Ambassador in Venice d | Westminster Abbey with a Procession of the Knights of Bath | The Molo: Looking West (detail) dg |
Related Artists:
NIEULANDT, Adriaen van
Flemish/Dutch painter (b. 1587, Antwerpen, d. 1658, Amsterdam).
Archip Iwanowitsch Kuindshi
painted Nacht in ca. 1905e1908
Johann Baptist Reiter
painted Slumbering Woman in 1849