About this artwork
This view across the Grand Canal in Venice shows the Palace of the Doge on the extreme right, with Santa Maria della Salute and the Customs House towards the centre. The view is taken from a terrace with an open balustrade, and in the water there are sailing boats and numerous gondolas moored at a pier. Mackie liked to paint at times of day when light was changing, and here the sunset is casting strong shadows on the buildings in the distance. Interestingly he chose to sign this painting twice – once on the balustrade to the left, and another time more faintly in the central foreground.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Charles Hodge Mackie (1862 - 1920) Scottish
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title:Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice
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date created:Before 1912
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materials:Oil on canvas
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measurements:81.30 x 100.30 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1946
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accession number:NG 2044
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artwork photographed by:Antonia Reeve
Charles Hodge Mackie
Charles Hodge Mackie
Mackie was born in Aldershot but was raised and trained in Edinburgh. In 1892 he visited Brittany and met Paul Sérusier, who brought him into contact with the work of Gauguin and the other Nabis. He worked in Paris in 1893 and again in 1900. Mackie took up woodblock printing around 1898, and his...