English Follower of Canaletto, circa 1830
Venice, a view of the Grand Canal looking north-west, from the Palazzo Corner to the Palazzo Contarini dagli Scrigni
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English Follower of Canaletto, circa 1830
Venice, a view of the Grand Canal looking north-west, from the Palazzo Corner to the Palazzo Contarini dagli Scrigni
oil on canvas
unframed: 39.5 x 65.1 cm.; 15½ x 25⅝ in.
framed: 53.4 x 78.7 cm.; 21 x 31 in.
With MacConnal-Mason and Son Ltd, London (as William James);
Where acquired by a private collector, USA, in the 1980s;
Art market, Plainfield;
Where acquired.
This composition relates closely to the same view by Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto (1697–1768), the prime version of which is at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.1
We are grateful to Charles Beddington for proposing an attribution to an English follower of Canaletto, circa 1830, on the basis of digital images.
1 W.G. Constable and J.G. Links, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697–1768, Oxford 1989, vol. I, pl. 41, reproduced, vol. II, pp. 279–80, no. 193.
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