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 :. | Venice: Riva degli Schiavoni ff | The Reception of the French Ambassador Jacques Vincent Languet, Compte de Gergy at the Doge Palace | Platz vor San Giacomo di Rialto in Venedig. | Veduta del Canale Grande in Richtung auf den Hafen von San Marco | Vincent Languet |
Related Artists:
Anna Munthe-Norstedt
painted Still Life with Spring Flowers in 1892
Heinrich Jakob Fried
painted The Blue Grotto of Capri in 1835
Charles Parsons
American Painter , 1821-1910