Bernardo Bellotto
Italian Rococo Era Painter, C.1721-1780
Italian painter and draughtsman. He was a view painter who worked in Italy and later at the courts of Dresden, Vienna, Munich and Warsaw. The nephew and almost certainly the pupil of Canaletto, outside Italy he signed his works de Canaletto and hence became known as Canaletto. He painted both topographical and imaginary views in a style independent of his uncle's, distinguished by cold colour and by the austere geometry of architectural masses. Related Paintings of Bernardo Bellotto :. | Ansicht von Dresden, Der alte Wassergraben des Zwingers, von der Orangerie Richtung Stadt aus gesehen | Signoria Square in Florence. | Pulkownik Piotr Konigsfels udziela lekcji jazdy konnej ksieciu Jozefowi Poniatowskiemu. | Ansicht von Dresden, Der Altmarkt von der Seegasse aus | Courtyard of the Castle at Kaningstein from the South. | Related Artists: Kusma Petrow-Wodkin1878-1939 Henry InmanAmerican Painter, 1801-1846,was an American portrait, genre, and landscape painter.He was born at Utica, N. Y., October 20, 1801, and was for seven years an apprentice pupil of John Wesley Jarvis in New York City. He was the first vice president of the National Academy of Design. He excelled in portrait painting, but was less careful in genre pictures. Among his landscapes are "Rydal Falls, England," "October Afternoon," and "Ruins of Brambletye." His genre subjects include "Rip Van Winkle," "The News Boy," and "Boyhood of Washington;" his portraits, those of Henry Rutgers and Fitz-Greene Halleck in the New York Historical Society, of Bishop White, Chief Justices Marshall and Nelson, Jacob Barker, William Wirt, Audubon, DeWitt Clinton, Martin Van Buren, and William H. Seward. Jean Urbain GuerinFrench, 1760-1836
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