# English Landscape Capriccio with a Column, in Canaletto

Canaletto painted this in about 1754, aged 57. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> A capriccio is a view that never existed, assembled from real and invented elements, and here Canaletto combines an English landscape of green hills, a weir and a winding river with a free-standing column and ruins in the Italian manner.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1754
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 134 x 106.4 cm (52 3/4 x 41 7/8 in.) framed: 151.8 x 126.4 x 6.4 cm (59 3/4 x 49 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1964.2.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Canaletto](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/canaletto), Italian, 1697–1768

Canaletto, the son of a Venetian painter of theatre scenery, turned in the 1720s to painting views of his native city and became its leading vedutista. British travellers on the Grand Tour were his most eager patrons, many through the merchant and consul Joseph Smith.

6 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Canaletto's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-canaletto?hang=749) (8 works)
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