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BERNARDO BELLOTTO (VENICE 1721-1780 WARSAW)

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ID 819738
Lot 15 | BERNARDO BELLOTTO (VENICE 1721-1780 WARSAW)
BERNARDO BELLOTTO (VENICE 1721-1780 WARSAW)

Venice, the Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge seen from the South

oil on canvas

24 x 36 in. (60.7 x 91.5 cm.)





Provenance

(Probably) supplied to Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1720-1794), Clumber Park, in 1741, and then by descent at Clumber House, Nottinghamshire, where first recorded in his posthumous inventory of 1794, through his third but older surviving son,

Thomas, 3rd Duke of Newcastle (1752-1795), and by descent to his son,

Henry Pelham, 4th Duke of Newcastle (1785-1851), and by descent to his son,

Henry Pelham, 5th Duke of Newcastle (1811-1864), and by descent to his son,

Henry Pelham Alexander, 6th Duke of Newcastle (1834-1879), and by descent to his son,

Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas, 7th Duke of Newcastle (1864-1928), by whom bequeathed to his nephew,

Henry Edward Hugh Earl of Lincoln, later 9th Duke of Newcastle (1864-1928); his sale, [The Property of the Honourable the Earl of Lincoln Inherited under the will of the late Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton]; Christie's, London, 31 March 1939, lot 7, as 'A. Canaletto' (285 gns. to Assher and Welcker).

with Edward Speelman, London.

J.S. Sykes.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1971, lot 38, as 'Antonio Canale, called Canaletto' (£22,000 to T. Parkinson).

[Property of a European Gentleman]; Sotheby's, New York, 17 January 1986, lot 125, as 'Giovanni Antonio Canale, called Canaletto, and Studio'.

with Harari & Johns, Ltd., London, as 'Giovanni Antonio Canal, Called Canaletto', until 1987.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

Catalogue of pictures being part of the Clumber Collection, 1872, no. 55, 58, 73, or 74.

A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitons, 1813-1912, I, 1913, pp. 143 and 145, as 'Canaletto'.

W.J. Hipkin, Descriptive catalogue of the Pictures, etc. at Clumber House, London, 1923, no. 36.

W.G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1786, II, second edition, Oxford, 1976, pp. 296-297, no. 228 b1, as 'Studio of Canaletto'; 2nd edition, II, revised by J. Links, 1976, pp. 296-7.

J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures, I, British, German, Italian, Spanish, London, 1985, p. 239, under no. P511, under versions.



Exhibited

(Possibly) London, British Institution 1853, among nos. 98, 103, 113 and 118, all lent by the Duke of Newcastle, as 'Canaletto'.

London, British Institution, 1858, no. 77, as 'Canaletto'.

London, British Institution, 1866, no. 77, as 'Canaletto'.

Nottingham, Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1879, nos. 98, 103, 113 and 118, all lent by the Duke of Newcastle, as 'Canaletto'.

Nottingham, Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1933, as 'Canaletto'.



Artist:Bernardo Bellotto (1721 - 1780)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Cityscape, Veduta
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Category:Painting
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