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January 2, 2007
Charles Beddington Canaletto in England: A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746–1755 Exh. cat. New Haven and London: Yale Center for British Art and Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2006. 220 pp.; 120 color ills.; 30 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (0300119690)

Exhibition schedule: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, October 19–December 31, 2006; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, January 24–April 15, 2007

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2007.3

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Giovanni Antonio Canal, called Canaletto. An Imaginary Landscape with a Palace. ca. 1754. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Paul Mellon Collection. Image © Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

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Visitors entering Canaletto in England at the Yale Center for British Art are confronted with two large canvases reunited for the first time in a century: a 1745–46 view of the Molo in Venice on Ascension Day (cat. 54, presumably painted in Venice), and a view of the Thames below Westminster on Lord Mayor’s Day a year or so later (cat. 23, painted in London). It is an instructive comparison that sets up the themes...