Provenance

Sir Robert Walpole (1676–1745), created 1st Earl of Orford in 1742, 10 Downing Street, London, by 1736 and until his resignation as Prime Minister in 1742, when removed to another of his London residences, and by descent to his son,
Robert Walpole, 2nd Earl of Orford (1701–1751), and by descent to his son,
George Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford (1730–1791); his sale, Langford’s, London, 13 June 1751 (=1st day), lot 65 as ‘Ditto [Cannaletti]. The Marriage of the Sea by the Doge, it’s Companion’, where acquired for £34-13 by ‘Raymond’ for the following,
Samson Gideon (1699–1762), Belvedere, near Erith, Kent, and by descent to his son,
Sir Sampson Gideon, 1st Bt. (1745–1824), created Baron Eardley in 1789, Belvedere, near Erith, Kent, and by descent to his daughter,
Maria Marow Gideon (1767–1834), wife of Gregory William Twistleton (from 1825 Eardley-Twistleton-Fiennes), 14th Baron Saye and Sele (1769–1844), Belvedere, near Erith, Kent, and by descent to their son,
William Thomas Eardley-Twistleton-Fiennes, 15th Baron Saye and Sele (1798–1847), Belvedere, near Erith, Kent,
Sir Culling Smith, 2nd Bt. (1768–1829), widower of Lord Eardley’s second daughter Charlotte Elizabeth (d. 1826), Belvedere, near Erith, Kent, and by descent to their son,
Sir Culling (Eardley-) Smith, 3rd Bt. (1805–1863), who assumed the name of Eardley, Belvedere, near Erith, Kent, from which removed in 1860 to Bedwell Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, and by descent to his eldest daughter,
Frances Selena, who married in 1865 Robert Hanbury M.P., who added the name of Culling to his surname, Bedwell Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, and by inheritance to her sister,
Isabella (d. 1901), wife of the Very Rev. the Hon. William Henry Fremantle, M.D., Dean of Ripon (1831–1916), Bedwell Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, and by descent to their son,
Lt.-Col. Sir Francis Edward Fremantle, O.B.E. (1872–1943), Bedwell Park, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, from whom acquired on 3 July 1930 (with its pendant Venice: The Grand Canal looking North-East from Palazzo Balbi to the Rialto Bridge) by the following,
with Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, where acquired on 4 April 1940 (with its pendant) for £4,400 by,
with Giuseppe Bellesi (1873-1955), Florence and London.
Senator Mario Crespi (1879-1962), Milan, by 1954 (with its pendant; according to Moschini, under Literature).
Presumably acquired with its pendant in Paris in the 1960s, and by descent until sold at the following,
Anonymous sale, Ader Tajan, Paris, 15 December 1993, lot 13, where acquired
Sale Christie's, London, 1 July 2025, nr. 8

Other works by Canaletto

Grand Canal: San Geremia and the Entrance to the Cannaregio
Mid-18th century

At the mouth of the Grand Canal in Venice
1722/23

Venice: the Grand Canal from the Palazzo Dolfin-Manin to the Rialto Bridge

Venice: the Bacino di San Marco from the Canale della Giudecca

The Campo San Salvador
c. 1736