After the Disaster Year of 1672, the art market collapsed. Dutch artists reverted to the more traditional, but their impact on secular themes, and genres including landscapes and still life has endured.
history of painting
With ancient origins, and relatively unusual in wooden panels, round canvases became popular in the Renaissance. Examples by Raphael, Poussin, Tiepolo, Girodet, Richard Dadd and others.
Spectacular landscapes and details painted by John Ferguson Weir, Laurits Tuxen, JoaquĂn Sorolla, John Singer Sargent, ThĂ©o van Rysselberghe, and others.
Exquisite Arabic Muslim art and architecture in Granada, painted in topographic views, and by Franz von Lenbach, Henri Regnault, MartĂn Rico, Childe Hassam, Tom Roberts and others.
Originally a designer of wallpaper and book illustrator, his strikingly original paintings accompany works by Zola and Charles Baudelaire.
Watermills by Jacob van Ruisdael and Meindert Hobbema, and a selection of windmills by Rembrandt, Jan van Goyen, and a later copy by John Constable.
Later examples as it declined in popularity, from David Teniers the Younger, Gerard ter Borch, and most recently from Claude-Joseph Vernet and Joseph Stella.
These became popular in the late 16th century, with fine examples from Lavinia Fontana, Paul Bril, Jan Brueghel the Elder, and Adam Elsheimer.
The 101st story, buried in the start of the fourth day, about a father who turns hermit with his young son after his wife’s early death, and a derived fable told by La Fontaine.
Louis BlĂ©riot’s flight across the Channel in 1909, biplanes in the air war in 1914-18, and the Battle of Britain seen from a distance in 1941.
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