English Follower of Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, 18th century

With W.H. Patterson, London;

Thereafter acquired.

Executed by an eighteenth-century English follower of Canaletto, this work focuses on two important churches: San Geremia and Santa Maria di Nazareth, commonly known as the Scalzi. Rendered with architectural precision, the structures flank the Grand Canal, underscoring the Church's spiritual and physical importance to La Serenissima. The composition's diagonal arrangement, drawing the viewer's eye into the distance, derives from Canaletto, the city's most celebrated eighteenth-century view painter who remained a potent source of influence on subsequent generations of artists.