Warwick Castle 1748 Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto lived for nine years in England, where he traveled when war reduced the number of British customers visiting Venice. This view of Warwick—a much-rebuilt Norman castle about twenty miles from Birmingham—comes from this period. It is one of a number of paintings and drawings commissioned from Canaletto by one of his most important English patrons and the castle’s owner, Francis Greville, Lord Brooke (1719–1773), later 1st Earl of Warwick Castle. Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venice 1697–1768 Venice). 1748.
Warwick Castle 1748 Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto lived for nine years in England, where he traveled when war reduced the number of British customers visiting Venice. This view of Warwick—a much-rebuilt Norman castle about twenty miles from Birmingham—comes from this period. It is one of a number of paintings and drawings commissioned from Canaletto by one of his most important English patrons and the castle’s owner, Francis Greville, Lord Brooke (1719–1773), later 1st Earl of Warwick Castle. Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) (Italian, Venice 1697–1768 Venice). 1748. Oil on canvas. Paintings
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