born 1712, Venice
died 1793, Venice
Italian landscape painter.
He and his two brothers collaborated in a flourishing studio-workshop in Venice; their sister was married to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo . By the 1750s Francesco was producing vedute (view paintings) of Venice. His many romantic impressions of the city never achieved the popularity of Canaletto 's near-photographic records of its architecture, and his work came to be appreciated only after the rise of Impressionism .