Canaletto and England

This catalogue accompanied the exhibition held at the Birmingham Gas Hall Exhibition Gallery on 14 October 1993, which showed Canaletto's pictures and drawings of 18th-century England, created during his stay in England of nine years from 1746. It includes examples of Canaletto's works alongside the following essays: 'Canaletto and England' by M.J.H. Liversidge; 'Venetian Painters in England in the earlier Eighteenth Century' by Brian Allen; 'Canaletto and the English Print Market' by David Alexander; 'Framing the Modern City: Canaletto's Images of London' by Mark Hallett and 'Canaletto and English Painters' by M.J.H.Liversidge. The first half of the book assesses Canaletto's career in England whilst the second half illustrates his influence on the developing school of English landscape painters such as Scott, Marlow and Sandby as well as major figures of the Romantic movement such as Girtin, Constable and Turner.