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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2007 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master Paintings - Evening | 75 | $****** - ****** | Venice, the entrance to the Grand Canal, with the Church of Santa Maria della Salute. Venice, a view of the Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo and the Scuola di San Marco |
paintings
82 x 65.5 cm (32.28 x 25.79 in)
oil on canvas
Traditionally thought to have been acquired by Sir William St. Quintin, 4th Baronet (1700-1770), directly from the artist
Thence by descent to his son, William St. Quintin (1729-1795)
By descent to his nephew, William Thomas Darby (1769-1805), who assumed the name St. Quintin by royal licence
By descent to his son, who died without issue in 1859, and thence to his brother, Matthew Chitty Downes St. Quintin, Colonel of the 17th Lancers (1800-1876)
By descent to his eldest son, William Herbert St. Quintin (1851-1932) in 1876
By descent to his wife, Violet St. Quintin (d. 1945)
By descent to her daughter, Margery Violet St. Quintin (1886-1969), wife of Colonel Edmund George Savile L'Estrange Malone
By descent to their daughter Mary (d. 1994), who married Sir Thomas Digby Legard, 14th Bt. (1905-1984)
Thence by family descent until offered, London, Sotheby's, 7 December 1994, lot 72
With Richard Green, London, from whom acquired by the present owner.
Country Life, vol. CXV, no. 2986, 8 April 1954, reproduced p. 1036, fig. 7; J.G. Links, Canaletto, supplement, London 1997, p. 16, no 146*, and p. 31, no. 308*, the former reproduced plate 249, the latter reproduced plate 265; C. Beddington, Canaletto in England: a Venetian artist abroad, 1746-1755, exhibition catalogue, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven (CT), 19 October - 31 December 2006; and London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 24 January - 15 April 2007, p. 26.
