A collector’s guide to Dutch landscape painters

‘No matter how tiny or cursory the figures, you can still imagine them breaking into movement’ Bellotto’s View of Verona with the Ponte delle Navi is one of the last of the artist’s monumental paintings still in private hands	A rare work by John Robert Cozens — hailed by Constable as ‘the greatest genius that ever touched watercolour’ In the Gardens of the Villa Negroni at Rome was painted by Cozens for the collector William Beckford
‘I want to tell no more, to leave all the afterwards to the invention and imagination of people’ The Prince Entering the Briar Wood is the only one of Edward Burne-Jones’s Briar Rose works left in private hands	Scene-stealers: why 18th-century painters were obsessed with London’s theatres As theatrical paintings by Johann Zoffany and Marco Ricci are offered in London, we look back at the origins of the genre