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Canaletto and Guardi: Views of Venice at the Wallace Collection Sweden It has become a commonplaceAmong the renowned Old Master paintings at the Wallace Collection in London is an important group of 27 eighteenth century views of Venice, known as vedute, by Canaletto and his followers, including Francesco Guardi. They hang together in a dedicated gallery known as the Canaletto Room, but the majority had not been cleaned since the nineteenth century and their original beauty was obscured by multiple layers of discoloured varnish. The paintings have