"Bernardo Bellotto, (c. 1721/2 or 30 January 1721 – 17 November 1780), was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for ...
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his vedute of European cities (Dresden, Vienna, Turin and Warsaw). He was the student and nephew of the famous Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto and sometimes used the latter´s illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle´s name, Canaletto.
Bellotto´s style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place´s lighting. It is plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of vedute, may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve superior precision of urban views." - (en.wikipedia.org 16.05.2020)
