Alnwick Castle, Northumberland 1752
The Duke of Northumberland
Canaletto Rio dei Mendicanti Painting ID:: 5560 Canaletto10.jpg
Rio dei Mendicanti 1723-24
Oil on canvas, 143 x 200 cm
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
Canaletto Rio dei Mendicanti (detail) s Painting ID:: 5561 Canaletto11.jpg
Rio dei Mendicanti (detail) s 1723-24
Oil on canvas
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
Canaletto The Rio dei Mendicanti (detail) Painting ID:: 5562 Canaletto12.jpg
The Rio dei Mendicanti (detail) 1723-24
Oil on canvas
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
Canaletto Grand Canal, Looking Northeast from Palazo Balbi toward the Rialto Bridge Painting ID:: 5563 Canaletto13.jpg
Grand Canal, Looking Northeast from Palazo Balbi toward the Rialto Bridge 1723-24
Oil on canvas, 144 x 207 cm
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
Canaletto Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio Painting ID:: 5564 Canaletto14.jpg
Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio 1723-24
Oil on canvas, 140,5 x 204,5 cm
Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, Madrid
Canaletto Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio (detail) fd Painting ID:: 5565 Canaletto15.jpg
Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio (detail) fd 1723-24
Oil on canvas
Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, Madrid
Canaletto The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge in the Background fd Painting ID:: 5567 Canaletto16.jpg
The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge in the Background fd 1724-25
Oil on canvas, 146 x 234 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Canaletto The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge in the Background (detail) Painting ID:: 5568 Canaletto17.jpg
The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge in the Background (detail) 1724-25
Oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Canaletto The Grand Canal near the Ponte di Rialto sdf Painting ID:: 5569 Canaletto18.jpg
The Grand Canal near the Ponte di Rialto sdf 1725
Oil on canvas, 90,5 x 134,6 cm
Private collection
Canaletto The Grand Canal from Rialto toward the North Painting ID:: 5570 Canaletto19.jpg
The Grand Canal from Rialto toward the North 1725
Oil on canvas, 89,5 x 131,5 cm
Private collection
Canaletto Doge Palace d Painting ID:: 5571 Canaletto20.jpg
Doge Palace d c. 1725
Oil on canvas, 65 x 86 cm
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbus
Canaletto Rio dei Mendicanti: Looking South Painting ID:: 5572 Canaletto21.jpg
Rio dei Mendicanti: Looking South c. 1725
Oil on canvas, 69,5 x 97,5 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Canaletto Grand Canal: Looking North-East toward the Rialto Bridge ffg Painting ID:: 5573 Canaletto22.jpg
Grand Canal: Looking North-East toward the Rialto Bridge ffg c. 1725
Oil on canvas, 146 x 234 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Canaletto Grand Canal: Looking North-East toward the Rialto Bridge (detail) d Painting ID:: 5574 Canaletto23.jpg
Grand Canal: Looking North-East toward the Rialto Bridge (detail) d c. 1725
Oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Canaletto Entrance to the Grand Canal: Looking East Painting ID:: 5575 Canaletto24.jpg
Entrance to the Grand Canal: Looking East c. 1725
Oil on canvas, 65 x 98 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Canaletto Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the Scuola di San Marco fdg Painting ID:: 5576 Canaletto25.jpg
Santi Giovanni e Paolo and the Scuola di San Marco fdg c. 1725
Oil on canvas, 125 x 165 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Canaletto San Giacomo di Rialto f Painting ID:: 5577 Canaletto26.jpg
San Giacomo di Rialto f 1725-26
Oil on canvas, 95,5 x 117 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Canaletto San Giacomo di Rialto (detail) kkj Painting ID:: 5578 Canaletto27.jpg
San Giacomo di Rialto (detail) kkj 1725-26
Oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Canaletto Venice: The Piazzetta Looking South-west towards S. Maria della Salute sdfg Painting ID:: 5579 Canaletto28.jpg
Venice: The Piazzetta Looking South-west towards S. Maria della Salute sdfg 1725-30
Oil on canvas, 172,1 x 136,2 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
Canaletto The Piazzetta, Looking toward the Clock Tower df Painting ID:: 5580 Canaletto29.jpg
The Piazzetta, Looking toward the Clock Tower df 1726-28
Oil on canvas, 172 x 135 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
Canaletto The Grand Canal near Santa Maria della Carita fgh Painting ID:: 5581 Canaletto30.jpg
The Grand Canal near Santa Maria della Carita fgh 1726
Oil on canvas, 90 x 131,5 cm
Private collection
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.