A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF
The Apparition of Christ in Limbo (^painted in 1829 /or
the Association of the Patriotic Friends of Art of Prague).
Mission of the Benedictine Monks to England. 1833.
The Conversion of St. Paul {a colossal picture executea
in 1834 /o;- the Basilica of San Paolo fuori le Mura at Home).
These serious subjects he diversified with a 'Betrothal of Psyche,* and, jointly with Landi, he painted, in fresco, the ceiling of the Torlonia Palace. As regards composition and design, Camuccini in these works is considered by his fellow-countrymen to have been entitled to stand in comparison with the great masters of painting of the later period of the Revival ; but in colouring he is admitted to have been very deficient. As a portrait painter he attained considerable eminence ; amongst the best he produced are those of Pope Pius VII. {now in the Gallery at Vienna). The Duke de Elacas, Ambassador from France at Kome. The King of Naples, and the Queen of Naples. The Countess Schouvaloff, and the Countess von Dietrichstein. 1829. Several of his works have been engraved by Bettelini, and some have been lithographed by Scudellari, and published under the title of 'I Fasti principali della Vita di Gesii Cristo,' with text in Italian and French, at Rome, in 1829. Camuccini was appointed inspector-general of the Museums of the Pope, and of the Factory of Mosaics, and director of the Neapolitan Academy of Rome. He was a member of the Institute of France, and during some years president of the Academy of St. Luke. Pope Pius VII. conferred upon him the title of Baron, with hereditary succession, and the Emperor Francis I. the order of the Iron Crown. He died at Rome in 1844. But it was not merely as an artist that Camuccini was distinguished. Recognized as a man of superior taste, and having amassed a considerable property, he expended no small portion of his wealth in the purchase of a fine collection of pictures and other objects of art. On this collection coming to be sold, in 1856, the greater portion of the pictures, upwards of seventy in number, were purchased by the Duke of Northumberland, who removed them to Ahiwick Castle. They consist principally of the works of the Italian masters living in the 16th and 17th centuries, with some specimens of an earlier date, and a few others of the Dutch and Flemish painters of the 17th century. One by Raphael, known as 'The Madonna with the Pink,' is the most noted of them.
CAMULIO, Bartolommeo m, flourished at Genoa in the middle of the 14th century._ A Madonna painted by him, in the year 1340, is in the Palermo Gallery.
CAMUS. See Doval le Camus.
CANAL, Antonio, commonly called Canaletto, was born at Venice in 1697. He was the pupil of his father, Bernardo Canal, who was a decorator and scene painter. Antonio first confined his atten- tion to theatrical decorations, but in 1719 went to Rome, where he spent some time in drawing and copying the antiquities of that city and its vicinity. Returning to his birthplace, he exclus- ively occupied himself in producing views of Venice, which for their great truth to nature, and for their extraordinary efEect, perspective, and colour, met with an immense success, and are still most highly esteemed. The figures in his views are almost all painted by Giovanni Battista Tie- polo. In 1746 Canaletto visited London, and re- mained two years, during which time he painted many of its most striking views. It is com- monly thought that he was the first artist who used the camera lucida for his pictures. The prin- cipal public and private galleries of Europe possess examples by this master ; but his works must not be confounded with those of his nephew, Bernardo Bellotto, who is also called Canaletto. His finest works are at Berlin, Dresden, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Many of Antonio's paintings have been engraved by Vicentino, and he hirriself has etched thirty-one plates of 'Views in Venice.' His death occurred in that city in 1768. The following are his principal works :
Bergamo. Ac. Carrara. A View of Venice. Berlin. Gallery. View of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice. ,, „ View of the Doge's Palace, Venice. ^, „ View of the Dogana, Venice. Darmstadt. Gallery. Venetian Scene. Dresden. Gallery. Views in Venice {six). Florence. UJjizi. The Ducal Palace, Venice. ,, „ The Eialto, Venice. Frankfort. Stadel Coll. Venetian Scenes. Hampton Ct. Palace. The Colosseum at Rome. Isleworth. Syon House. View of Northumberland House, tendon. 'Nat. Gall. View in Venice. „ The Grand Canal, Venice. " „ The Scuola di San Eocoo [with figures by Tiepolo). Regatta on the Grand Canal. " „ The Piazzetta of St. Mark, Venice, " from the Quay. London. Kat. Gall. Ducal Palace and Column of St. Mark, Venice. Eton College. 1746. On the Canal Eeggio, Venice. ,, San Pietro di Castello, Venice. 'I Soane Mm. View on the Grand Canal, Venice. „ Montagu Ho. View of "Whitehall. „ Dudley Ho. View in Venice. „ DevMishire Ho. View in Venice. Wallace Gall. Twenty pictures by him and his nephew, the Grand Canal being a fine and notable work by Canale. Munich. Pinakothek. Views of Venice. Naples. 3fuseum. Twelve Views of Venice. Paris. Louvre. View of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice. Fetershvurg. Hermitage. Reception of Count Gergi at Venice. „ „ The Marriage of the Doge with the Adriatic. Rome. Ac. di S. Luca. A Scene. Turin. Pinacoteca. View in Venice. Venice. Accademia. Portico of a Palace. „ Museo Correr. The Grand Canal, Venice. Vienna. Gallery. Views of the Schottenkirche. Liechten-stein Coll. Windsor. Castle. Two Views on the Thames. „ „ Views in Rome.
CANALE, GinsEPPE, an Italian designer ai:d engraver, was bom at Rome in 1725. He was in- structed in engraving by Jacob Frey, and also frequented the school of the Cavaliere Benefiale. In 1751 he was invited to Dresden to assist in making the drawings and engraving the plates of a part of the pictures in the Gallery, and was appointed engraver to the Court. He died in 1802. We have by him the following prints :
Maria Mattia Perini ; after M. Benefiale. Maria Antonia, Electress Dowager of Sarony ; after a. dramng by the Princess herself. Archbishop Bonaventura Barberini.
Maria Josephina, Queen of Poland.
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