More views of rolling chalk hills in the south-east of England, here from Edward Stott, Spencer Gore, Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, and others.
Shakespeare
More rich narratives, including Titania and Bottom, Falstaff, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Odysseus, Satan, Lady Macbeth, and Fairy Mab.
In 1781 he painted 3 masterpieces, of the suicide of Queen Dido of Carthage, ‘The Nightmare’ still famous today, and the Dream of Queen Katharine of Aragon.
Rural depopulation as labour moved to work in city factories, dominance of larger suppliers in food markets, draining waterlogged land, and the development of the tractor.
Arable farmers learned to rotate crops, to prevent loss of soil fertility. At the same time, land was enclosed to remove it from use for communal grazing.
Rolling countryside in the Downs of England, the Alban Hills near Rome, Normandy, Pontoise, the Jorat in Switzerland, and the rural Midwest.
The earliest known story in the Western canon to end with the suicide of frustrated lovers, it was the precursor to Romeo and Juliet, and extensively depicted.
More examples drawn from “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and from “The Tempest”, that were exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere.
Found in Celtic and Germanic folklore, they first become popular in Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream”, and established a sub-genre in the 19th century.
Two of his paintings secured support for Greek independence, another had to be hidden from public view because it glorified liberty, and he was a major influence over Impressionism.
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