Claim: Giuseppe Canella took up landscape painting and produced his first views in 1805, then made his debut at the Fine Art Exposition at the Brera Academy, a state-run tertiary public academy of fine arts in Milan, Italy of 1818.
Evidence: The first views were not produced until 1815, after a short stay in Venice. It may have been under the influence of Pietro Ronzoni, a landscape painter of international renown active in Verona, that he took up landscape painting.