Paintings of mountains in Australia and New Zealand, by Eugene von Guérard, Nicholas Chevalier, John Turnbull Thomson, Marianne North and Charles Blomfield.
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Mounts Fuji, Cotopaxi, Merapi, St Helens, and above all the most painted of all, Vesuvius during its violent eruptions.
Paintings of Kangchenjunga and Everest, and sundry peaks of the Himalaya, by Edward Lear, Marianne North and Nicholas Roerich.
Waterfalls in mountains are spectacular, and difficult to access. Examples include the falls where Sherlock Holmes fought with Moriarty.
Bierstadt, who went west to the Rocky Mountains with surveyors, the former Surveyor General of New Zealand, and the greatest expeditionary botanical painter, Marianne North.
The first century of European painting in New Zealand, from Jame Cook’s expeditions to 1868.
From Church’s view of Niagara, Bierstadt in the Sierra Nevada, to two early landscape views of Ferdinand Hodler.
Spectacular paintings of India, followed by those of Australia and New Zealand, as recommended by Charles Darwin.
After a series of family tragedies, she decided to travel the world painting its plants. Now one of the most celebrated woman artists of the age.
Join me to explore Maria Merian’s insects in Surinam, David Livingstone and Thomas Baines on the Zambezi, and William Bradford working his way through pack ice.
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