Close to the fall of the Serenissima Republic, Count Girolamo Manfrin, an entrepreneur in the tobacco sector, acquired a palace in Cannaregio from the Venier family in 1787, now known as Palazzo Priuli Manfrin.
In this building, Manfrin kept and exhibited some of the most significant paintings of Venetian painting, establishing himself as one of the most important Venetian art collectors of the late 18th century. Thus wrote Francis Haskell del Conte in "Patrons and painters: study on the relationship between art and Italian society in the Baroque age" (Florence, 1966): "almost wit
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