VENICE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

23 June - 4 July 2025

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For the inaugural edition of Classic Art London, we are pleased to be displaying a curated selection of works painted in Venice in the Nineteenth Century. We will be showing works by artists including Carlo and Giovanni Grubas, Antonietta Brandeis, and Frans Vervloet, many of which reflect the political changes and continuing tradition of view painting throughout the century.

GIOVANNI GRUBAS

(Venice 1829 – 1919 Pola)

The Piazza San Marco by Night with Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy, and Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, 5th April, 1875

CARLO GRUBAS

(Venice 1802 – 1870 Venice)

Venice: The Volta di Canal at Night with the Festivities in Honour of Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, 7th October, 1838

GIUSEPPE GAVAGNIN

(Venice 1846- before 1889)

The Arrival of Victor Emmanuel II in Venice, 7th November, 1866

ANTONIETTA BRANDEIS

(Myslkovice, Czech Republic 1848 – 1926 Florence)

Venice: The Rialto Bridge from the North

ANTONIETTA BRANDEIS

(Myslkovice, Czech Republic 1848 – 1926 Florence)

Venice: The Molo from the Bacino di San Marco

ANTONIETTA BRANDEIS

(Myslkovice, Czech Republic 1848 – 1926 Florence)

Venice: The Rialto Bridge From the North

ANTONIETTA BRANDEIS

(Myslkovice, Czech Republic 1848 – 1926 Florence)

Venice: San Giorgio Maggiore from the Bacino

ANTONIO VARNI

(Genoa 1840/41 - 1908)

Artist's Palette with The Lighting of the Lamps on the Lagoon

MARCO GRUBAS

(1839-1910)

Two Artist’s Palettes with Views of Venice

LEONE COLLE

Venice: The Piazza San Marco during Carnival by Moonlight, 1878

FRANS VERVLOET

(Mechelen 1795-1872 Venice)

Venice: The Piazza San Marco, looking South

FRANS VERVLOET

(Mechelen 1795-1872 Venice)

Venice: A Side Chapel in the Church of San Sebastiano with a Cardinal at Prayer

ALESSANDRO LOTTI

(fl. c. 1818 – c. 1850)

Venice: The Ground Floor of the Zecca with a Family being shown the Coin Presses

FRANCESCO ZANIN

(Nove, Vicenza 1824 – 1884 Venice)

The Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, 1874

FRANCESCO ZANIN

(Nove, Vicenza 1824 – 1884 Venice)

Venice: The Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo

GIUSEPPE BERNARDINO BISON

(Palmanova 1762 – 1844 Milan)

River Landscape with a Peasant Couple and a Boy near a Round Tower; and A River Landscape with a Washerwoman near a Fortress

EDWARD WILLIAM COOKE, R.A.

(London 1811 – 1880 Groombridge, Kent)

Sunset on the Venice Lagoon, San Giorgio in Alga and the Euganean Hills in the Distance, 1864

EDWARD WILLIAM COOKE, R.A.

(London 1811 – 1880 Groombridge, Kent)

Venice: Sunset on the Bacino di San Marco, looking West

GIOVANNI PIVIDOR

(1816-1872)

Venice: The Redentore; Venice: The Doge’s Palace and the Prisons; and Venice: San Giorgio Maggiore

GIOVANNI MIGLIARA

(Alessandria, 1785 - 1837 Milan)

An Imaginary View of a Town in the Veneto

ALBERTO PROSDOCIMI

(Venice 1852-1925)

Venice: Santa Maria della Salute

GIACOMO GUARDI

Venice 1764-1835)

A Coastal Landscape

GIACOMO GUARDI

(Venice 1764-1835)

A Coastal Landscape with three Figures in the Foreground