Sandro Botticelli.org, welcome & enjoy!
|
|
Canaletto
The Arrival of the French Ambassador in Venice
|
ID: 41057
|
|
|
|
Canaletto
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 :. | Piazza S.Marco con la basilica di fronte (mk21) | Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Piazzetta | The Stonemason s Yard (detail) | The Thames and the City fcf | Piazza S.Marco verso la basilica,dall'angolo nord-oves (mk21) | Related Artists: PROVOST, JanFlemish Northern Renaissance Painter, 1465-1529 Edward Mitchell BannisterBorn in Canada, Edward Mitchell Bannister moved to Boston in 1848 to work as a ship cook David van der PlasDavid van der Plas (1647-1704), was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter.
David van der Plas became famous as a portrait painter, and his most illustrious patron was Cornelis Tromp. In 1684 he married Cornelia van der Gon of Haarlem, the daughter of the castellan (kastelein) of the Oude Doelen, the meeting quarters of the Haarlem schutterij (the building currently houses the Stadsbibliotheek Haarlem). David van der Plas' brother-in-law was the painter Govert van der Leeuw and his pupil was Jacob Appel.
His wife Cornelia van der Gon was the rich heiress of the Amsterdam architect Adriaan Dortsman (ca. 1636-1682), who designed the round Lutheran church on the Singel. The marriage was childless, and Cornelia spent her time on her doll houses, which Dortsman had helped design and which Van der Plas helped decorate. The landscape painter Jan Wijnants also painted miniatures for these doll houses. Cornelia died in 1701, and after the death of Van der Plas, the doll houses were sold at auction to Sara Rothe, who used them to decorate her own doll houses.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
All the Sandro Botticelli's Oil Paintings
Supported by oil paintings and picture frames
Copyright Reserved
|