Three misfits: Lucien Pissarro, a Neo-Impressionist landscape painter and print-maker; Maxwell Lightfoot, brilliant but scathingly critical of the others; Walter Taylor, friend of Douglas Fox Pitt.
Pissarro
He became a close friend of Lucien Pissarro, joined the Camden Town Group as its secretary. He later became Director of the Tate Gallery, and painted flower arrangements.
From 15 minutes to sketch a passing thunderstorm in oils, to more than a year for several masterworks of the 19th century.
After Seurat’s unexpected and early death, Paul Signac was his artistic heir, but the movement went in different directions before fading out after 1900.
The art dealer who bought and sold more Impressionist paintings that all others combined. Was he saint or sinner? Inventor or architect?
From two pairs of unicorns drawing the Duke and Duchess of Urbino to a horse-drawn fire engine racing through the countryside, how animals have drawn people everywhere.
From Giorgione, Dürer and Altdorfer to Turner, Pissarro, Monet and Renoir: landmarks in the composition of landscape paintings.
The more of less regular repetition of form to generate rhythms has long been used in figurative painting, but in the 19th century became prominent in landscapes.
Staffage – people, animals, birds, carts and ships – make a big difference to many landscape paintings. Have you met the Wanderer too?
Telling a story using shadows, and the nineteenth century controversy over the colour of shadows.
