File:Canal, Giovanni Antonio - Venice, Piazza San Marco looking east towards basilica - Sotheby's, London 3 December 2014, lot 11.jpg

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Canaletto: Venice: Piazza San Marco looking East towards the Basilica  wikidata:Q41019610 reasonator:Q41019610
Artist
Canaletto  (1697–1768)  wikidata:Q182664 q:it:Canaletto
 
Canaletto
Alternative names
Birth name: Giovanni Antonio Canal pseudonym: Il Canaletto
Description Italian painter, etcher, graphic artist, architectural draftsperson and visual artist
Date of birth/death 7 October 1697 / 17 October 1697 / 18 October 1697 / 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 19 April 1758 / 10 April 1768 / 19 April 1768 / 20 April 1768 / 1768 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Venice Venice
Work period from 1716 until 1768
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1716-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Venice (1716–1719), Rome (1719), Vienna, Dresden, Venice (1720–1746), London (circa 1746–1756), Venice (circa 1756–1768)
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creator QS:P170,Q182664
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Title
Venice: Piazza San Marco looking East towards the Basilica
label QS:Lfr,"Place Saint-Marc, Venise"
label QS:Lpt,"Piazza di San Marco, em Veneza"
label QS:Len,"Venice: Piazza San Marco looking East towards the Basilica"
label QS:Lit,"Piazza San Marco, Venezia"
label QS:Lde,"Piazza San Marco, Venedig"
label QS:Lnl,"Piazza San Marco, Venetië"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre Veduta Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: The viewpoint is from above, from the tower of the church of San Geminiano, since replaced by the Ala Napoleonica of the Palazzo Reale, home now to the Museo Correr.
Date 1730s
date QS:P,+1730-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
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Medium oil Edit this at Wikidata
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history

John Christopher Cankrien (d.1853), Hull
4 June 1853: purchased by Henry Farrer at the sale of the collection of at Christie’s, London, lot no. 67 (as an important work of high quality)
Henry Farrer (1798–1866), London
The Reverend Frederick Leicester (1803–73)
19 May 1860: purchased by Farrer at the sale of the collection of at Christie’s, London, lot no. 155 (as Canaletti – St Mark’s place looking towards the front of the church and the campanile; with numerous spirited figures…)
Henry Farrer (1798–1866), London
Col. the Hon. Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn of Llandegai (1800–86), Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd, North Wales by 1860
inherited by Hugh Napier Douglas-Pennant (1894–1949), 4th Baron Penrhyn
inherited by late Lady Janet Douglas Pennant (1923–97) (niece)

August 2009: Acquired privately from the Penrhyn collection by the present owner
Inscriptions
English: unidentified brushed inventory number 16 on the stretcher
Notes sold for 5.4 million pounds article
References
Source/Photographer Sotheby's, London, 03 december 2014, lot11

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