LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

23.62 in. (60.00 cm.) (height) by 36.02 in. (91.50 cm.) (width)

Literature:

S. Kozakiewicz, Bernardo Bellotto, London 1972, vol. II, pp. 430-431, no. Z170 (as Studio of Canaletto, circa 1740); E. Camesasca, L'Opera Completa del Bellotto, Milan, 1974, p. 121, no. 291 (as Attributed to Bellotto); W.G. Constable, ed. J.G. Links, Canaletto, Oxford, 1989, vol. II, p.292, no.219a (as 'doubtfully by Canaletto' and tentatively attributed to Bellotto); D. Succi, ‘Bernardo Bellotto nell’”Atelier” di Canaletto e la sua produzione giovanile a Castle Howard nello Yorkshire’, in Bernardo Bellotto detto il Canaletto, exhibition catalogue, Venice 1999, pp.39, 40, reproduced fig. 21 (as Bellotto); D. Succi, 'La Venecia del otro "Canaletto": el joven Bernardo Bellotto', in Canaleto. Una Venecia Imaginaria, exhibition catalogue, Madrid 2001, pp. 70-71, reproduced fig. 11 (as Bellotto)(also published in Catalan language edition, Barcelona 2001); C. Beddington, in E.P. Bowron (ed.), Bernardo Bellotto, exhibition catalogue, Venice and Houston 2001, p. 78, under cat. no. 11, in main text and note 6 (as Bellotto)(also published in Italian language edition).

Provenance:

Edmund Higginson (1802-71), Saltmarshe Castle, Herefordshire; Purchased from the above in 1860 by Col. the Hon. Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant (1800-1886), later 1st Baron Penrhyn of Llandegai, Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd; Thence by descent until sold, London, Sotheby's, 3 December 1924, lot 59 (as by Canaletto), where bought by Agnew for 460gns.; With Thomas Agnew and Sons, London; Alvan Fuller, Boston, Mass.; Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Henderson, Boston, Mass., from whom acquired by the father of the present owner (via an intermediary) in 1977; Thence by descent to his son.