Paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Aelbert Cuyp, van Ruisdael, Caspar Wolf, Jongkind, Whistler and others of ice on rivers, canals, lakes and the sea. Brrrr.
Bradford
Records of the Lower Grindelwald Glacier over 250 years, and paintings of those in the Alps, Greenland and Iceland. Catch them while you can, as they’re vanishing fast.
In 1869 he sailed on board ‘Panther’ on an expedition to Greenland and the Arctic. Among his subsequent commissioned paintings was one for Queen Victoria.
In the 1850s and 60s he was a successful marine artist, working in whaling ports such as Fairhaven, before moving to Boston.
Landscapes which are quietly unusual, and one of the Symbolist masterworks of the 19th century, after which he turned Impressionist.
Perhaps the one and only expedition sponsored by an art collector, William Bradford sailed to Greenland in 1869, and based the rest of career on its images.
Join me to explore Maria Merian’s insects in Surinam, David Livingstone and Thomas Baines on the Zambezi, and William Bradford working his way through pack ice.
A pupil of Hans Gude, he stopped painting for over 10 years. When he resumed, he painted unusual landscapes, peaking in a Symbolist masterpiece of the apocalypse.
Wonderful paintings of the last years of sail, from Aivazovsky, Clarkson Stanfield, William McTaggart, Seurat, Signac, and others.
Views of one glacier over 250 years show how it has changed. Others in Greenland and Iceland are rapidly vanishing too.
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