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Canaletto (1697-1768) 
Aliases: Giovanni Antonio Canal; Giovanni Antonio "da" Canal; Tonino Canal; Tottino Canal; Tottino "de" Canal; Zuane Antonio "da" Canal; Antonio Canale; Tottino "de" Canale; Antonio Canaletto; Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto; Tottino Canaletto; il Canaletto
Professions: Architecture painter; Painter; Landscape painter; Etcher
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO VENICE 1697 - 1768 VENICE, THE
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GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, IL CANALETTO (VENICE 1697-1768)
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Giovanni Antonio Canal, il Canaletto (Venice 1697-1768)
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GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, IL CANALETTO (VENICE 1697-1768)
Biography: Canaletto
(b Venice, 17 Oct 1697; d Venice, 10 April 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’s works was sold to King George III in 1762. The British Royal Collection has the largest group of his paintings and drawings.
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