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 :. | Piazza della Signoria in Florence (mk08) | Capriccio with the Colosseum | View of Warsaw from Praga | The Ruins of the Old Kreuzkirche in Dresden | Dluga Street | Related Artists:
Sir William OrpenIrish
1878-1931
Sir William Orpen Location
Irish painter. He attended the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin (1891-7), and the Slade School of Art, London (1897-9), there winning the composition prize of 1899 with The Play Scene from Hamlet (Houghton Hall, Norfolk). He became a friend of Augustus John and joined the New English Art Club. From very early years he had been an impassioned student of the Old Masters, and he went to Paris with John in 1899 to see Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa (Paris, Louvre). In the following years his perception of their works
Carl EbertCarl Ebert (German, 1821 - 1885)
Jean-Laurent MosnierFrench portrait Painter , b. ca. 1743, Paris, d. 1808, St. Petersburg