FOLLOWER OF GIOVANNI ANTONIO CANAL, CALLED CANALETTO | Venice, a view of the Bacino di San Marco with the Palazzo Ducale and the Piazzetta

A 19th-century copy after Canaletto's original, of slightly smaller dimensions, commissioned by John, 4th Duke of Bedford (1710–71) in 1732, which remains in the collection of the Dukes of Bedford at Woburn Abbey.¹

¹ Oil on canvas, 47 x 80 cm.; see W.G. Constable, Canaletto. Giovanni Antonio Canal 1697–1768, London 1962 (and subsequent editions revised by J.G. Links), vol. II, pp. 235–36, cat. no. 101, reproduced vol. I, plate 28, fig. 101.