File:Canaletto Westminster Bridge 1747.jpg

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Summary

Canaletto: Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames

Artist

Canaletto (1697–1768)

	Alternative names	Birth name: Giovanni Antonio Canal pseudonym: Il Canaletto
	Description	Italian painter, etcher, graphic artist and architectural draftsperson
	Date of birth/death	7 October 1697 / 17 October 1697 / 18 October 1697 / 1697	19 April 1758 / 10 April 1768 / 19 April 1768 / 20 April 1768 / 1768
	Location of birth/death	Venice	Venice
	Work period	from 1716 until 1768 date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1716-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1768-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
	Work location	Venice (1716–1719), Rome (1719), Vienna, Dresden, Venice (1720–1746), London (circa 1746–1756), Venice (circa 1756–1768)
	Authority file	: Q182664 VIAF: 88652637 ISNI: 0000000121428397 ULAN: 500115269 LCCN: n79065963 NLA: 36246904 WorldCat

Title

Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames

Object type

painting

Genre

Veduta

Description

English: people, event, celebration, commemoration, holiday, procession, festival, monuments, church, cathedral, ships, barges (flat-bottomed watercraft), rowboats, sailboats, cityscape, flags, boats

Date

1747

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 95.9 cm (37.7 in) ; width: 127.6 cm (50.2 in)

Collection

Yale Center for British Art

	Native name	Yale Center for British Art
	Parent institution	Yale University
	Location	New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
	Coordinates	41° 18′ 28.44″ N, 72° 55′ 50.16″ W
	Established	1957
	Website	britishart.yale.edu
	Authority file	: Q6352575 VIAF: 155449049 ISNI: 000000040451915X ULAN: 500303557 LCCN: n77005277 NLA: 35748311 WorldCat

Current location

Paul Mellon Collection,

English: Bay13, 401

Accession number

B1976.7.94 (Yale Center for British Art)

Notes

Paul Mellon Collection

References

Canaletto in England. A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746-1755, 23
Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, 435
Canaletto, 63
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1669225
https://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/c/canalett/7/canal701.html
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/twH5GpSm6omCqw
Google Arts & Culture asset ID: twH5GpSm6omCqw
Art UK artwork ID: westminster-bridge-with-the-lord-mayors-procession-on-the-thames-245559
Yale Center for British Art artwork ID: 1669225

Source/Photographer

Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork

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CANALETTO

(b. 1697, Venezia, d. 1768, Venezia)

London: Westminster Bridge from the North on Lord Mayor's Day 1746 Oil on canvas, 96 x 137,5 cm Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

Canaletto is first recorded in England in spring 1746, and his earliest paintings of London are depictions of the new Westminster Bridge, a subject he was to portray from various vantage points. The bridge was not actually completed until four years after this work was painted.

In this picture he combines a view of its whole span with a depiction of festivities, which, although tamer than the Venetian spectacles he generally painted, partially recall them. The celebrations accompanied the appointment of the new Lord Mayor of London. The largest City Barge is shown taking him to Westminster Hall, by the Abbey at the right, where he will be sworn in. The prominent building on the horizon to the left of it is St John's Church, Smith Square, and over on the other side of the river is Lambeth Palace, the London home of the Archbishop of Canterbury. All the other spectacular barges are those of the different city guilds (Skinners, Goldsmiths, Fishmongers, Clothworkers, Vinters, Merchant Taylors, Mercers and Dyers); a number of them are firing salutes to honour the Mayor. In order to encapsulate all of this activity within such a broad panorama Canaletto has adopted an imaginary vantage point high above the Thames.

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Author: CANALETTO Title: London: Westminster Bridge from the North on Lord Mayor's Day Time-line: 1701-1750 School: Italian Form: painting

Type: landscape

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