Taking the train with Turner, William Powell Frith, Manet, and Claude Monet, who became something of a railway buff in the 1870s.
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Another huge human panorama which captured the spirit of the age, set in Paddington Railway Station. Not his last, though.
In the 1870s, Manet and Monet introduced steam trains to the world of art. At the Salon, they were met with ridicule, but became an important theme in Impressionism.
Railways and painting have been intertwined since 1844. Turner, Manet, Monet, van Gogh, and others show how.
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