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Artist | Canaletto |
Year | 1754 |
Type | Oil on canvas, landscape painting |
Dimensions | 62 cm× 108 cm(24 in× 43 in) |
Location | National Gallery, London |
Eton College is a 1754 landscape painting by the Italian artist Canaletto. [1] [2] It depicts a view of Eton College, then in Buckinghamshire, from the opposite bank of the River Thames at Windsor. [3] Prominent amongst the buildings is Eton College Chapel, built during the fifteenth century.
It was one of the final paintings produced by Canaletto at the end of his nine-year stay in Britain before he returned to his native Italy. Today it is in the collection of the National Gallery in London, having been acquired in 1876. [4]