ABOUT THE ARTIST Bernardo Bellotto (1722-1780) was the son of a sister of the painter Canaletto and, like his uncle, he gained fame and fortune as a view painter.
Inside one were stacks of tiny framed canvases in the style of the 18th-century view painter Francesco Guardi, a rival of Canaletto and Pannini who painted scenic postcards of Venice to sell to British nobility on their Grand Tour.
Batoni, then Rome's finest history painter, was faulted by compatriots for neglecting nobler aims and devoting so much time to portraits, and Antonio Canaletto's gifts as a view painter became blunted by the mechanical repetition demanded of him by British visitors.
Barbara Ernst Prey keeps a low profile in the art world, and yet she may be, at this moment, the most widely viewed painter in the world.
The view-painter David Cox would moisten his paper just where he wanted runny pigment to puddle up, miraculously creating boulders, tree stumps and thick gorse.
These questions of authorship arise when viewing painter Cynthia Daignault's exhibition, There Is Nothing I Could Say That I Haven't Thought Before, on view at The Flag Arts Foundation.
In his view, Renaissance painters see themselves as heroes.
The exhibition displays Paris from many points of view, by painters with many different attitudes.
Mike Leigh's JMW Turner biopic couldn't shoot on site as the construction of the Turner Contemporary art gallery had obstructed the very view the painter so loved.
Munch's most ambitious (unfinished) work, The Frieze of Life, comprised a sequence of connected panels intended to expose the illusory nature of optimism and bring to public view the painter's innermost feelings about life from birth to death (3 ).
