Early works followed Constable or his teacher Michallon, and excelled in anatomy. His trees became more gestural, with daubs and marks as he led the start of Impressionism.
landscape
An early painting of an eruption in 1631, later works by JMW Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, Albert Bierstadt, Charles Caryl Coleman and others.
Mount Fuji by Hokusai, Naotake, Hiroshige, and pioneer botanical painter Marianne North. Childe Hassam’s Mounts Adams and St Helens, Church’s Cotopaxi, and others.
Some innovative sketches and studies, with a series of major commissions including his huge landscape of Gordale Scar that wouldn’t fit.
Difficult to cultivate, as it can’t self-pollinate and doesn’t breed ‘true’, it has still become a major food crop around the world. From blossom to market in paintings.
Largely self-taught, in the early 19th century stood alongside Constable and Turner. Prolific painter of the countryside, with wonderful oil sketches, and farm animals.
Walnuts providing food, fine wood, and a drying oil used as an alternative to linseed; almonds that may have a high cyanide content, but are still eaten. Paintings from Piero to Bonnard.
Brilliant, painting over 4,000 oil paintings in little more than 15 years, arrested as a French spy, and finally succumbed to bouts of heavy drinking and mounting debts.
As a member of the Salon jury, he ensured the young Impressionists were accepted. He led the way in painting fruit trees in blossom, and a series of innovative nocturnes.
His increasingly sketchy landscapes in the 1850s were well received at the Salon, as he pioneered painting riverbanks from his studio boat.
