Some of the many major works from the 19th century, from Caspar David Friedrich, through Turner and Constable, to Paul Cézanne, and van Gogh’s sunflowers.
Constable
In landscapes by Rubens, Constable, Ford Madox Brown, Frederic Edwin Church, Millet, Pissarro, Breton, and Prendergast.
First fully developed in the Dutch Golden Age, here are Constable’s storms, Turner’s vortices, Boudin’s textured dusk, ending in Paul Nash’s imagination.
The fall of Icarus, Raphael’s cartoon of the Miraculous Draft of Fishes, Hodler, Larsson, John Constable and others painting anglers.
From the calm of Vernet’s Italian coast, through Heligoland, to Monet at Honfleur, and the Straits of Bosporus.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, leading portrait painter and founding President of the Royal Academy, was born 300 years ago. He was the most influential British artist for over a century.
Overview of David’s Neoclassicism, his teacher Guérin, the influence of Constable and Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, his friends, and rival Ingres.
From Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, via the wooded countryside of Gainsborough and Constable, to the coast of Philip Wilson Steer.
A painter of fine landscapes in Pre-Raphaelite style, mainly around the countryside near Worcester and in North Wales.
Completing this river cruise, from Canaletto’s view of Westminster, through a Frost Fair, to John Constable’s Headlight Castle.
