Eton College (painting)

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Eton College
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Artist Canaletto
Year1754
Type Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions62 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.

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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]

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