In landscapes by Rubens, Constable, Ford Madox Brown, Frederic Edwin Church, Millet, Pissarro, Breton, and Prendergast.
Palmer
When to paint looking into the rising or setting sun, or when to put your back to the sun to show its light cast on a mountain peak.
Ursa Major, often the only constellation people know today, the Milky Way, the Pleiades, and Sagittarius.
By the end of the 18th century, remains of Pompeii were being excavated and inspired painters to re-imagine life and death in the city.
The development of landscape painting of the coast of Cornwall, from the late 18th century, through the Newlyn School, to the 1890s.
More gold grain crops and sunsets from Samuel Palmer and his mentor John Linnell during the middle of the nineteenth century.
Gold of ripe grain crops and gold of rich sunsets are distinctive of the paintings of Samuel Palmer and his mentor John Linnell. Here are works from Palmer’s time at Shoreham.
How the Rückenfigur passed from Friedrich via JC Dahl to Thomas Fearnley, then was reborn with Gustave Caillebotte.
Shepherds, children tending geese or with their parents working in the harvest, Sargent’s friends slumbering in their siesta, and an enigma.
The goddess Diana, Selene, the Virgin and Child, or is it just the moon in the sky of a pastoral landscape? Paintings from Bosch to van Gogh.
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