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Gorgeous Landscapes 1: Wolf to Cole

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Declared sublime, and named after the throat, they’re painted from the mid-18th century. Works by Wolf, Turner, Ward, German Romantics and more.

June 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

A short history of animal painting 1

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From cave paintings 36,000 years ago, through Paulus Potter in the Dutch Golden Age, to Oudry’s fables and racehorses of the early 19th century.

March 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Thatched Cottages 1

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Once the mark of rural poverty, thatched roofs were common throughout the countryside of Europe. Here are some up to the 1890s.

February 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

A Weekend in Wales: paintings 1

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Paintings by Richard Wilson, John Sell Cotman, James Ward, Samuel Palmer, Hans Gude and others showing the landscapes of Wales.

December 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 13 Little people

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Staffage – people, animals, birds, carts and ships – make a big difference to many landscape paintings. Have you met the Wanderer too?

November 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape embedded 1

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Miniature landscape views embedded in more conventional paintings were not uncommon during the Renaissance, before landscape was established as a genre.

July 31, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Down on the farm: paintings of farmyards 1

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Farmyards crowded with people and their animals, from Paulus Potter to some less well-known Impressionists such as Henri Rouart.

May 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

British landscape painting before Turner: 1800-1820

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More paintings by great artists who preceded JMW Turner, including James Ward, Thomas Girtin, Philip de Loutherbourg, John Crome, John Sell Cotman and John Constable.

April 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Harvest Home in paintings – the harvest

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Superb paintings by Bruegel, Samuel Palmer, Daubigny, Jules Breton, Anna Ancher, Félix Vallotton, and others.

September 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

River power: Paintings of watermills 1

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From Dürer in about 1500, through van Ruisdael, Hobbema, Vernet, Girtin, to Constable watermills were popular in landscape art.

May 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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