His meticulous paintings of farm animals transformed landscape practice, and created a new sub-genre.
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It wasn’t until later in his career that he discovered his formula for success: putting farm animals into his landscapes.
First shown at the Royal Academy when only 10, this true genius had a colourful but tragically short life.
Despite difficulties over attribution and other mysteries, he was key to the development of the Venetian style.
He painted with the Danish Impressionists at Skagen, in St Ives, and above all in Hungary – and has been all but forgotten now.
His paintings move through Impressionism to a distinctive Post-Impressionism, with swirling brushstrokes, and more subtle colour.
He worked his way from rural naturalism, through Impressionism, to a distinctive Post-Impressionism.
He painted some of the most wonderful landscapes of the nineteenth century, but today is almost forgotten.
Two Romantic series from the founder of the Hudson River School, showing the rise and loss of civilisation, and the stages of life.
An innovator and major influence in the Impressionist movement, he seems to have been judged on his poorer works, not these, his best paintings.
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