One of the founding American masters, sole pupil of the founder of the Hudson River School, his landscapes are meticulously detailed and painted in the studio from many plein air oil sketches.
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Unusual use and manipulation of reflections by Ferdinand Hodler in his Parallelism, and by Gustav Klimt painting through a telescope on his summer holidays.
Paintings by Helen Allingham, Willard Metcalf, Pierre Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Nikolai Astrup, and others.
Paintings by Samuel Palmer, Millais, Millet, Alfred Sisley, Vincent van Gogh. Carl Larsson, Sérusier, LA Ring and others.
Technically challenging for painstaking Divisionist techniques, those who chose to depict reflections used studies to help, and Seurat was generally optically faithful. But the best of all was Théo van Rysselberghe.
Pioneering painter of industry in the West Point foundry, a superb series of landscapes across the lakes of the Alps, then Professor and first Director of the School of Fine Arts at Yale University.
In 1880, a detailed realist, he then became more experimental with looser brushstrokes before adopting Divisionism in 1887. His later paintings took over from where van Gogh left off.
Over 20 years of views over the lake from Hodler, with his Parallelist style, and culminating in some of the most sublime landscapes in European painting.
Paintings from 19th century masters including JMW Turner, the Swiss specialist Alexandre Calame, John Ferguson Weir, and Gustave Courbet in exile.
Increasingly challenging reflections by Caillebotte, Martin Rico, Normann in the Norwegian fjords, specialist Frits Thaulow, and an essay in optics by Kazimierz Sichulski.
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