Watch Associate Curator Francesca Whitlum-Cooper discuss Canaletto and his incredible view paintings of Venice, which were hugely in demand, particularly with British visitors on the Grand Tour. She focuses on Canaletto's painting 'The Stonemason's Yard', a mysterious and perhaps more unusual Venetian view from the artist.

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