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151.8 × 137.2 cm (59.75 × 54 in)
oil on canvas
Commissioned by a member of the King family, very probably the Hon.
Thomas King, later 5th Baron King (1712-1779), London and Ockham Park, Surrey, and by descent through his great grandson,
Willam King (later King-Noel), 8th Baron King and 1st Earl of Lovelace, later Viscount and Baron Ockham (1805-1893), who in 1846 moved to Horsley Towers, East Horsley, to his son,
Ralph Gordon King-Noel (later King-Milbanke), 2nd Earl of Lovelace (1839-1906), who returned to Ockham Park, to his half-brother,
Major Lionel Fortescue King, 3rd Earl of Lovelace (1865-1929), by whom moved to Whitwell Hatch, Haslemere (by 1926), and his son,
Peter King, 11th Lord King and 4th Earl of Lovelace (1905-1964); Sotheby’s, London, 13 July 1937, lot 135 (£2,100 to Spalding).
P.E. Spalding, USA (according to Fondazione Zeri photographic archive, no. 68887).
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Lady], Sotheby’s, London, 12 December 1973, lot 9 (£280,000 to Vincent).
António de Sommer Champalimaud (1918-2004), from whose collection sold, Christie’s, London, 8 July 2005, lot CH20, where acquired.
The Evening News , 29 June 1937.
The Illustrated London News , 3 July 1937, p. 18, illustrated.
Edinburgh Evening News , 14 July 1937, p. 6.
News Chronicle , 14 July 1937, p. 3.
The Scotsman , 14 July 1937, p. 15.
Derby Evening Telegraph , 15 July 1937, p. 4.
W.G. Constable, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768 , Oxford, 1962, I, pl. 65; II, p. 338, no. 343.
L. Puppi, L’opera completa del Canaletto , Milan, 1968, p. 112, no. 256, illustrated, tentatively dated to 1746.
Advertisement in The Burlington Magazine , 115, 849, December, 1973, p. i, illustrated.
L. Puppi, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Canaletto , Paris 1975, p. 112, no. 256, illustrated, tentatively dated to 1746.
W.G. Constable, ed. J.G. Links, Canaletto: Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697-1768 , Oxford, 1976, I, pl. 65; II, pp. 362-263, no. 343.
A. Corboz, Canaletto: Una Venezia immaginaria , Milan, 1985, I, p. 106, fig. 110 (detail); II, p. 664, no. P364, illustrated.
F. Russell, ‘A Suffusion of Light", Country Life , 187, October 1993, p. 64.
C. Beddington, ‘Canaletto in England", in Canaletto in England: a Venetian artist abroad, 1746-1755 , New Haven, 2006, exhibition catalogue, pp. 24-26, 29, note 123, and p. 25, fig. 17, as ‘the most monumental of all Canaletto’s depictions of The Bacino di San Marco on Ascension Day , the most glamorous of all Venetian subjects".
F. Russell, ‘Patterns of Patronage", in C. Beddington ed., Canaletto in England: a Venetian artist abroad, 1746-1755 , New Haven, 2006, exhibition catalogue, pp. 46-47, note 32.
C. Beddington, in Canaletto: Painting Venice.
The Woburn Series , exhibition catalogue, London, 2021, pp. 182-183, note 15.
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