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Landscape with Figures and Animals is a 1763 landscape painting by the French artist Philip James de Loutherbourg. [1] It was the first painting the young Alsatian artist publicly exhibited. He submitted it to the Salon of 1763 at the Louvre in Paris where the art critic Denis Diderot 's praise of it helped launch his career. [ 2 ]
John Spurling, writing for The Spectator in 2009, described him as "a bold and ambitious artist using the past to rediscover and repossess the natural world of our own time" producing "large, skilful, traditionally painterly landscapes". [4] Greenland's painting National Park is in the collection of Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, having ...
Richard Parkes Bonington (25 October 1802 [1] – 23 September 1828) was an English Romantic landscape painter. He moved to France at the age of 14 and can also be considered as a French artist, and an intermediary bringing aspects of English style to France. [2]
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of ...
Crossing the Brook is an 1815 landscape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner. It depicts a view towards Plymouth down the Tamar valley. Turner gave the English countryside an Italianate look. [1] He produced it based on sketches he had made during a trip to Devon in 1813. [2]
An Avalanche in the Alps is an 1803 landscape painting by the French-born British artist Philip James de Loutherbourg. [1] Painted in the emerging style of romanticism it depicts an avalanche in the mountains of the Alps. [2] Loutherbourg adds narrative to the painting by having tiny figures in the foreground recoiling from the impending ...
John Constable RA (/ ˈ k ʌ n s t ə b əl, ˈ k ɒ n-/; [1] 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting [2] with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of ...
Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ n z b ər ə /; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, [1] he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. [2]