Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Emma Ciardi 
(1879 - 1933)
 
Emma Ciardi was an Italian painter. Ciardi was born in Venice. Following in the footsteps of her father Guglielmo and brother Beppe, Emma Ciardi began painting as an adolescent and exhibited for the first time in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, and at the Promotrice in Turin; in 1903 she participated in the Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia and took part in it almost every year after that until 1932. In addition to her landscapes and views of Venice, she also soon made a name for herself with neo-18th-century subjects which were particularly well received by the English and American public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Ciardi


Canal of St. John and Paulus and Scuola di San Marc
Ca 1933
Oil on canvas
22.5 x 34.4 cm
Pinacoteca Egidio Martini

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Vincenzo Chilone
(1758 - 1839)

Vincenzo Chilone was an Italian painter who specialized in vedute, after the style of Canaletto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenzo_Chilone



View of the flooded Piazza San Marco
1825
Oil on Canvas
59,7 x 79,4 cm
Private Collection
Sotheby’s, New York, 2010
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2010/old-master-paintings-n08645/lot.86.html

Monday, January 29, 2024

 Michele Marieschi
(1696 - 1744)
 
Michele Marieschi or Michele Giovanni Marieschi, also known as Michiel, was an Italian painter and engraver. He is mainly known for his landscapes and cityscapes (vedute), or views, mostly of Venice. He also created architectural paintings, which reveal his interest in stage design.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Marieschi

The Grand Canal with Santa Maria della Salute
circa 1735-1740
Oil on Canvas
126 x 212 cm
Louvre Museum
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010066119

Sunday, January 28, 2024

 Federico Del Campo
(1837 - 1923)

Federico del Campo was a Peruvian painter who was active in Venice where he was one of the leading vedute painters of the 19th century. Demand for his views, particularly from English tourists was so strong that he painted several views multiple times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_del_Campo

Saint Mark's Square, Venice
1898
Oil on Canvas
36 x 60 cm
Private collection
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/19th-century-european-paintings-l15102/lot.2.html

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Francesco Zanin
(1824 - 1884)
 

Francesco Zanin was an Italian painter, known in particular for having reproduced and imitated Canaletto's depictions for a long time.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Zanin


Piazza San Marco looking east towards the Basilica, Venice,
1875
Oil on Canvas
70 x 95 cm
Private collection
Sold 23.10.2018 - 18:00
Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/6002073/

Friday, January 26, 2024

Giovanni Migliara
(1785 - 1837)
 

Giovanni Migliara was a nobleman and Italian painter active at the beginning of the 19th century, painting vedute and history paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Migliara


Venice, the Rialto Bridge
Ca 1837
Oil on Canvas
26 × 34 cm
Private collection

Thursday, January 25, 2024

Raffaele Mainella
(1856-1941) (some sources state 1907)
 

Raffaele Mainella was an Italian painter. The son, grandson and great-grandson of painters, Raffaelle Mainella was trained at the Istituto di Belle Arti in Naples before transferring to the Accademia in Venice. Early in his career Mainella worked mainly as a painter in oils, with a particular preference was for views of Venice and its surroundings. But after a few years he decided to devote himself to watercolour, a medium in which he was highly regarded by his contemporaries.

https://www.askart.com/artist/Raffaele_Mainella/11051267/Raffaele_Mainella.aspx

Venice
late 19th century
Watercolor and gouache over graphite
43.5 × 24.2 cm cm
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/91822

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

 Francesco Guardi
(1712 - 1793)

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was an Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Guardi


Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge, Venice
1780
Oil on Canvas
68.5 x 91.5 cm
NGA - The National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.1166.html

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Canaletto
(1697 - 1768)
 

Giovanni Antonio Canal commonly known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaletto
 

Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Molo, Venice
1742 - 1744
Oil on Canvas
114.5 x 153.5 cm
NGA - The National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.32589.html

Monday, January 22, 2024

Carlo Grubacs
(1810 - 1870)
 
Carlo Grubacs was an Italian 19th Century painter who was born in 1810 in Venice. The son of a Merchant Navy captain whose family, originally from Montenegro, had settled in Italy in the second half of the 18th century, he belonged to the Venetian school of 'Vedutista' which had flourished with artists like Canaletto and Francesco Guardi in the 18th century.

https://www.lempertz.com/en/catalogues/artist-index/detail/grubacs-carlo.html


Venice, a view of the Rialto Bridge from the South
1840
Oil on Canvas
21.7 x 30.2 cm
Private collection
Sold by Sotheby’s 02 May 2018 • London
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/old-masters-l18030/lot.200.html

Sunday, January 21, 2024

Robert Frederick Blum
(1857 - 1903)
 
Robert Frederick Blum was an American artist. He was one of the youngest members of the National Academy of Design and was President of the Painters in Pastel and a member of the Society of American Artists and the American Watercolor Society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frederick_Blum
 

Canal in Venice, San Trovaso Quarter
ca. 1885
oil on canvas
86.5 x 58.6 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/canal-venice-san-trovaso-quarter-22411

Saturday, January 20, 2024

James Holland
(1799-1870)

James Holland was an English painter of flowers, landscapes, architecture, marine subjects, and a book illustrator. He worked in both oils and watercolours and was a member of the Royal Watercolour Society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Holland_(artist)


A Recollection of Venice
1853
Oil on Canvas
26,3 x 33,4 cm
Birmingham Museums Trust
https://useum.org/artwork/A-Recollection-of-Venice-James-Holland-1853

Friday, January 19, 2024

Carl Skånberg
(1850 - 1883)

Carl Emmerik Skånberg was a Swedish painter. Despite a serious illness that caused him a great deal of suffering, he was a prolific painter and one of the first artists in Sweden to be influenced by Impressionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Skånberg


The Grand Canal, Venice
1882
Oil on Canvas
140 x 75 cm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
https://emp-web-84.zetcom.ch:443/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=18405&viewType=detailView

Thursday, January 18, 2024

William Callow
(1812 - 1908)
 
William Callow (1812–1908) was an English landscape painter, engraver and water colourist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Callow
 

Canal Barataria, Venice
1885
Watercolour over pencil, heightened with touches of bodycolour
45.7 x 35.5 cm
Private collection
Sold by sotheby’s in 2012
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2012/old-master-british-drawings-sale-l12040/lot.202.html

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Joseph-Nicolas-Hippolyte Aussandon
(1836 - 1926)
 

Joseph-Nicolas-Hippolyte Aussandon was a French painter

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Nicolas-Hippolyte_Aussandon

Venedig, Gondel vor Santa Maria Salute (Venice, gondola in front of Santa Maria Salute)
Oil on wood
23,5 x 33 cm
Private collection
Sold Wien | Palais Dorotheum , 31.07.2013
https://www.dorotheum.com/de/l/5012774/


Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Peder Mørk Mønsted
(1859 - 1941)
 

Peder Mørk Mønsted  was a Danish realist painter. He is best known for his landscape paintings in a realistic style. His favorite motifs include snowy winter landscapes, still water and forests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder_Mørk_Mønsted

Canal in venice
1928
Oil on Canvas
40 x 61 cm
Private Collection

Monday, January 15, 2024

GASPAR VAN WITTEL, CALLED VANVITELLI
(1652 - 1736)
 

Caspar van Wittel or Gaspar van Wittel (born Jasper Adriaensz van Wittel known in Italian as Gaspare Vanvitelli was a Dutch painter and draughtsman who had a long career in Rome. He played a pivotal role in the development of the genre of topographical painting known as veduta. He is credited with turning topography into a painterly specialism in Italian art.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_van_Wittel

View of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, from the entrance of the Grand Canal
Oil on Canvas
55.1 x 108.2 cm
Private collection
Sold by Christie’s, London, 8 Jul 2021
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6327269

Sunday, January 14, 2024

Franz Richard Unterberger
(1837 - 19021)

Franz Richard Unterberger (15 August 1837 25 May 1902 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a XIXe19-century Tyrolean landscape painter.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Richard_Unterberger



Ponte di Paglia, Riva Schiavoni, Venice
Oil on Canvas
61.5 x 50.8 cm
Private collection
Sold ,by Christie’s N.Y. 11 Jul 2019
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6217973

Saturday, January 13, 2024

Friedrich Naht
(1858–1929)
 

Friedrich Naht was a German painter.

Venice, a view of Santa Maria della Salute
1894
Oil on Canvas
106 x 116 cm
Private collection
https://www.dorotheum.com/de/l/6148692/

Friday, January 12, 2024

Carl Kauffman
(1843 - 1905)
 

Karl Kaufmann was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Karl Kaufmann was a student at the Vienna Academy. His studies in the European North (Norway), to Holland, Germany (Franconia, Danzig, Königsberg) and often to Italy (Naples, Rome, Venice) gave him the motives for his numerous landscapes, including a remarkable number of views of Venice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kaufmann_(painter)

Vessels on the Grand Canal, Venice
1881
Oil on canvas
50.5 x 81.5 cm
Private collection
Sold by Christie’s, London, 6 Jun 2013
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5694371

Thursday, January 11, 2024

 Karl Heilmayer
(1829 - 1908)
 
Karl Heilmayer was a German landscape painter. Heilmayer was born as the son of the royal court actor and landscape painter Emil Heilmayr. On the 6th In November 1843 he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich, but abandoned it prematurely and continued to form his self-taught.
Heilmayer remained active in Munich and painted mainly fog and moonlight landscapes. In his search for picturesque areas, he undertook study trips to Upper Bavaria, Italy, South Tyrol, among other places. He also visited Belgium, France and Northern Germany.


https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Heilmayer
https://www.artnet.com/artists/karl-heilmayer/


Vollmond über der Lagune von Venedig 
(Venice, Full Moon over Santa Maria Salute)
1884
Oil on Canvas
55.5 x 75 cm
Private collection
(Sold Vienna, 24.06.2019)

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Joseph Mallord William Turner
(1775 - 1851)

Joseph Mallord William Turner RA known in his time as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist. He is known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. He left behind more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolours, and 30,000 works on paper. He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner

Approach to Venice
1844
Oil on Canvas
88 x 118.4 cm
National Gallery of Art
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.117.html

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Thomas Edwin Mostyn
(1864 - 1930)
 
Thomas Edwin Mostyn was an English artist who worked during the late Victorian era and the early 20th century. Mostyn's works are mainly remembered from his idealistic and romantic garden scenes, as well as various portraits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edwin_Mostyn


An Enchanted Evening, Venice
oil on canvas laid down on board
50.2 x 60.9 cm
Private collection
Sold by Christies, London December 2015
https://www.art.salon/artwork/tom-edwin-mostyn-r-o-i-r-w-a-r-c-a_an-enchanted-evening-venice_AID93526

Monday, January 8, 2024

Edward Pritchett
(1828-1864)
 
Edward Pritchett (1807-1876) was a nineteenth-century English painter and man of mystery.
Little is known of Pritchett's life; he has appropriately been described as "elusive." Pritchett spent periods over three decades living and working in Venice, producing admirable views of the city; he was one of a group of English artists who produced notable records of the scenes of northern Italy, a group that included John Wharlton Bunney, James Holland, the brothers-in-law Luke Fildes and Henry Woods, and, in a later generation, William Logsdail.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Pritchett


Figures beside the Basilica of San Marco and the Torre dell'Orlogio, Venice
Oil on canvas
61 x 50.8 cm
Private collection
Sold by Christies, Jul 2016
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6010392

Sunday, January 7, 2024

Charles Clément Calderon
(1870 - 1906)

<i>Charles Calderon was born in Paris. He stayed in Paris and went on to study art at the Beaux-Arts Academie under Alexander Cabanel (1823-1889) who was a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts and taught there until his death in 1889. Calderon clearly loved painting views of Venice as the vast majority of his paintings are of this wonderful place. Indeed many of his works were titled, “The Grand Canal of Venice”, but unlike many other artists, he does not seem to repeat his subjects. His style is influenced by that of Felix Ziem. His colours are always bolder and brushwork is always vibrant. </I>

https://selectfineart.org/index.php/product/vue-de-venise/

Venice By Sundown
Oil on canvas
46,5 x 65 cm
Private collection
Sold by Sothebys, Paris, June 2017

Saturday, January 6, 2024

 Edward William Cooke
(1811 - 1880)
 
Edward William Cooke RA FRS FZS FSA FGS was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_William_Cooke


Venice, Sunset Behind The Church Of Santa Maria Della Salute
1855
Oil on Paper laid on Canvas
28 x 45
Private collection
Sold by Sothebys, New York - November 2016

Friday, January 5, 2024

 George Clarkson Stanfield
(1828 - 1878)
 
George Clarkson Stanfield was an English painter best known for his topographical views painted during his visits to the Rhine Valley, Switzerland, and the Italian lakes. He was the son of the marine painter Clarkson Frederick Stanfield.  
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clarkson_Stanfield
 

Santa Maria della Salute, Venice
1864
oil on canvas
65.5 by 101.5 cm.
Private collection
Sold by Sotheby’s, 2011
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2011/victorian-edwardian-art/lot.47.html


Thursday, January 4, 2024

Thomas Moran
(1837 - 1926
 

Thomas Moran was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He was a younger brother of the noted marine artist Edward Moran, with whom he shared a studio. A talented illustrator and exquisite colorist, Thomas Moran was hired as an illustrator at Scribner's Monthly. During the late 1860s, he was appointed the chief illustrator for the magazine, a position that helped him launch his career as one of the premier painters of the American landscape, in particular, the American West.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Moran


A View of Venice
1891
1600 - 1615
Oil on canvas
89.2 x 64.1 cm.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/view-venice-17881

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

 Antonio María Reyna Manescau
(1859 - 1937)
 

Antonio María de la Concepción Reyna Manescau, variously cited as Antonio María (de) Reyna Manescau or simply Antonio Reyna Manescau was a Spanish painter who developed most of his career in Italy. Arguably a member of the Málaga School of Painting, he studied under Bernardo Ferrándiz and alongside Moreno Carbonero. He moved to Italy in his early 20s, where he was further influenced by Italian and Spanish expatriate artists, and where he lived for the rest of his life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_María_Reyna_Manescau

Venetian Canal
Before 1973
Oil on canvas
34 x 74 cm
Carmen Thyssen Museum, Málaga, Spain
https://www.carmenthyssenmalaga.org/en/obra/canal-de-venecia

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Martín Rico y Ortega
(1833 – 1908)
 

Martín Rico y Ortega was a Spanish painter of landscapes and cityscapes.
Rico was one of the most important artists of the second half of the nineteenth century in his native country, and enjoyed wide international recognition as well, especially in France and the United States. From his earliest works painted in the mountainous countryside outside of Madrid to the later works he painted in Paris and Venice, throughout his life Rico stayed true to his love of painting en plein air, despite his evolving artistic style.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martín_Rico

A Quiet Afternoon in Venice
oil on panel
34.9 by 22.2 cm
Private collection
Sold at Sothebys, New York 4. Nov 2011 (19th Century European Art, Lot 38)

Monday, January 1, 2024

Antonietta Brandeis

(1848 - 1926)
 
Antonietta Brandeis (also known as Antonie Brandeisová) (1848–1926), was a Czech-born Italian landscape, genre and portrait painter, as well as a painter of religious subjects for altarpieces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonietta_Brandeis



Canal In Venice With View Of The Back Of The Palazzo Rocca)
By 1926
Oil on panel
24,5 x 14,3 cm
Private collection

Ross Bleckner (b.1949)   Ross Bleckner is an American artist. He currently lives and works in New York City. His artistic focus is on painti...