Giambattista Cimaroli, ca. (1687–after 1757)

• Giovanni Battista Cimaroli was an Italian painter.
• He was born in Salò on Lake Garda, not far from Brescia.
• He studied under Antonio Aureggio and later in Bologna with the landscape painter Antonio Calza.
• He moved to Venice around 1713.
• Cimaroli's rustic landscapes are reminiscent of the Arcadian scenes of Francesco Zuccarelli.
• Cimaroli collaborated c. 1722–6, with Canaletto on Owen McSwiney's unusual Allegorical Tombs series.
• Important early patrons of Cimaroli were Marshal Schulenberg, Count Tessin of Sweden, and the British merchant and diplomat settled in Venice, Joseph (Consul) Smith.
• It was through the disposition of Consul Smith's art collection, hand-picked by Smith for King George III, that six landscapes by Cimaroli entered the Royal Collection.
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