Bernardo Bellotto

Venice, a view of the Grand Canal looking north from near the Rialto Bridge, with the Fabbriche Nuove on the left

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Property from a Private Collection

Bernardo Bellotto

Venice 1722–1780 Warsaw

Venice, a view of the Grand Canal looking north from near the Rialto Bridge, with the Fabbriche Nuove on the left

oil on canvas

61 x 92.5 cm.; 24 x 36½ in.

This Lot has been withdrawn from the sale.

Murray Guthrie (1869–1911), Torosay Castle, Isle of Mull;

With Knoedler, London;

Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere (1868–1940), Warwick House, St James’s, London;

By whose Executors sold, London, Christie’s, 19 December 1941, lot 56, reproduced opposite p. 9 (as Antonio Canaletto), for £1,155 to Tooth;

With Arthur Tooth and Son, until 1944, when acquired by

James (‘Jimmy’) Voase Rank (1881–1952), Druid's Lodge, Wiltshire, and London;

By whose widow, Patricia Rank, sold to a private collector;

By descent to his son;

By whom offered (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), London, Sotheby’s, 9 December 1992, lot 79, sold after the sale (as Canaletto);

With Matthiesen Gallery, London, and Newhouse Galleries, New York;

With Lampronti Gallery;

Where acquired by a private collector in 2007;

By whom sold (‘Property from a European Private Collection’), London, Sotheby’s, 6 December 2017, lot 25 (as Bellotto), for £1,700,000;

Where acquired by the present collector.

T. Borenius, Works of Art in the Collection of Viscount Rothermere, London 1932, no. 34, reproduced (as Canaletto);

W.G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, 2 vols, Oxford 1962, vol. II, p. 282, no. 233(b) (from a reproduction, probably by Canaletto);

S. Kozakiewicz, Bernardo Bellotto, London 1972, vol. II, p. 439, no. Z206 (under ‘Works attributed to Bellotto’, as a good example of the work of Canaletto’s studio in about 1740);

E. Camesasca, L’opera completa del Bellotto, Milan 1974, page 118, no. 262 C (under ‘Other works attributed to Bellotto’);

W.G. Constable, rev. ed. J.G. Links, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, 2 vols, Oxford 1976, vol. II, pp. 299–300, no. 233(b) (from a reproduction, probably by Canaletto);

W.G. Constable, rev. ed. J.G. Links, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, 2nd ed. reissued with supplement and additional plates, 2 vols, Oxford 1989, vol. II, pp. 299–300, no. 233(b) (from a reproduction, probably by Canaletto);

J.G. Links, A Supplement to W.G. Constable’s Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1697–1768, London 1998, p. 24, no. 233(b) (as Canaletto);

C. Beddington, Bernardo Bellotto and his circle in Italy & a masterpiece by Francesco Guardi, London 2014, under no. 4, n.p. (as Bellotto; ‘Bellotto painted versions of at least three of [the set of four executed by Canaletto for the Duke of Bolton]’).