CANALETTO: View of the Old Horse Guards and Banqueting Hall

✦ CANALETTO

🖼 View of the Old Horse Guards and Banqueting Hall, 1749

◈ Oil on canvas

⊞ 47 × 77 cm

▣ Private collection

🖼 Order as art print*

Precise architectural lines and luminous sky capture Westminster's iconic structures in sharp detail. Canaletto's veduta established the visual template for 18th-century London views, influencing how the city presented itself to wealthy patrons and collectors.

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E. H. Gombrich

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