Warwick Castle

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

1748 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

Canaletto lived for nine years in England, where he traveled when war reduced the number of British customers visiting Venice. This view of Warwick, a Norman castle about twenty miles from Birmingham, comes from that period. It is one of several paintings and drawings commissioned from Canaletto by one of his most important English patrons and the castle’s owner, Francis Greville, Lord Brooke (1719–1773), later 1st Earl of Warwick.

Artist

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Date

1748

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019