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'L'Anconetta near Venice, a Sketch
Private Collection, England / Photograph by John Hammond
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Ascribed to Wilson
'L'Anconetta near Venice, a Sketch
c.1765-70
Oil on canvas
27.6 x 41.5 cm
10 7/8 x 16 5/16 in.
Private Collection, England
BB22
NWP113D
A convent can be seen on an island on the Venetian lagoon with boats, boatmen and cattle.
Brighton 1920 (37); Bangor 1925 (20); Exeter 1946 (67); Birmingham 1948-49 (22) London 1949 (21)
P.Sandby; Benjamin Booth; thence by descent
The colour range and technique are totally at variance with those of Wilson
[1] Centre of upper horizontal stretcher bar, indecipherable red seal
[1] Upper centre right of frame printed and written in Kenneth Garlick's manuscript: Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery / R. Wilson / 22 [pencil encircled] / L'Anconetta
L'Anconetta is a small island near Marghera, close to Mestre, on which the church of Sta Maria dell'Anconetta was built. The church and its community were dependent on the Patriarch of Venice.
D193 Studio of Wilson, The Island of Anconetta, Venice, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
E19 Roberts after Wilson, L'Anconetta, an Island near Venice, The British Museum
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To outward appearances this seems to be a pastiche. However, in view of the Booth provenance it may have been repainted at an early date, as Constable believed. Numerous versions and variations of the composition indicate its popularity in Wilson's lifetime and later.
Booth Notes, Doc. 9 (9 - L'Anconetta near Venice (a sketch)); WGC, pp. 192-93, pl. 66a, unnumbered variant; Walpole Society 1998-I, p. 16, BB22
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