Writing in a 1900 catalogue, he described The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo as “the most undoubted example of his art in the Wallace Collection.” Bellotto was a precocious and talented ...
When the fourth Marquess of Hertford bought The Grand Canal with San Simeone Piccolo at Christie's in 1859, it was described as a major work by Canaletto. Beddington tells The Art Newspaper ...
Winding navigable canals, picturesque fondamenti lined with pastel-hue buildings, and impossibly narrow alleys that lead to ...