Paintings starting with JMW Turner in 1844, through Monet in 1871, Winslow Homer, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Tom Roberts, Pissarro, and Childe Hassam.
Roberts
The Macchiaioli of Tuscany, James Whistler, Georges Seurat and the Australian Impressionists all like to sketch in oil on cigar boxes.
Ridden by Napoleon, crossing Australian desert, walking on the beach at Aqaba, on the streets of Tbilisi, in North Africa and Arabia.
Sixteen views of the River Thames and Houses of Parliament, painted between 1745 and 2006, showing where they were painted from.
Introduced to European painting by JMW Turner and Caspar David Friedrich, fog effects became popular in the later nineteenth century.
New Zealand landscapes painted between 1870 and 1900, including major features that have since vanished in a huge volcanic eruption.
Before the 19th century, most paintings of deserts were imaginary. Then artists started to paint them at first hand. Paintings up to 1864.
Increasingly popular during the 19th century, the Alhambra was painted by von Lenbach, Regnault, Childe Hassam, Australian Tom Roberts, and others.
Until about 1800, Western landscape painting sought to reveal rather than to hide. It was JMW Turner and Caspar David Friedrich who popularised the effect of fog.
Racing sandyachts 500 years ago, Punch and Judy shows, the painter who inspired Pissarro, and a firing squad: not what you’d expect on the beach.
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