Giovanni Battista Cimaroli

Giovanni Battista Cimaroli (1687–1771) was an Italian painter of rustic landscapes with farms, villas and graceful figures and capricci of ruins and views of towns in the Veneto.

[3] Cimaroli's rustic landscapes are reminiscent of the Arcadian scenes of Francesco Zuccarelli,[4] influenced by a tradition of Lombardian realism.

[5] Cimaroli collaborated c. 1722–6, with Canaletto (amongst other Venetian painters) on Owen McSwiney's unusual Allegorical Tombs series, whose aim was to memorialize British worthies, the main sponsor being the 2nd Duke of Richmond.

[3] Important early patrons of Cimaroli were Marshal Schulenberg, Count Tessin of Sweden, and the British merchant and diplomat settled in Venice, Joseph (Consul) Smith.

[10] Cimaroli, despite the esteem of contemporaries, was nearly forgotten until the mid-twentieth century,[9] but has undergone a revival of critical interest, typified by the publication of the first catalogue raisonné of his paintings.