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Robert William Wood (March 4, 1889 – March 14, 1979) was an American landscape painter. [1] He was born in England, emigrated to the United States and rose to prominence in the 1950s with the sales of millions of his color reproductions. [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 ...
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 ...
Alfred Sisley (/ ˈ s ɪ s l i /; French:; 30 October 1839 – 29 January 1899) was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors).
A Landscape at Sunset is a 1773 landscape painting by the French artist Joseph Vernet. [1] [2] It portrays a view of a harbour bathed in sunshine on a summer's day with fisherman bringing on their catch. It was commissioned by King of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski as one of a pair of landscapes along with A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas.
Landscape with the Burial of St Serapia; Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (de Momper) Landscape with the Finding of Moses; Landscape with the Good Samaritan; Landscape with the Port of Santa Marinella; Landscape with the Temptation of Christ; Landscape with the Temptation of St Anthony (Lorrain) Landscape with the Temptation of St Anthony (Savery)
Lake Avernus I (c. 1765). Richard Wilson RA (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was an influential Welsh landscape painter, who worked in Britain and Italy.With George Lambert he is recognised as a pioneer in British art of landscape for its own sake [1] [2] and was described in the Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales as the "most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to ...
The Icebergs is an 1861 oil painting by the American landscape artist Frederic Edwin Church. It was inspired by his 1859 voyage to the North Atlantic around Newfoundland and Labrador . Considered one of Church's "Great Pictures"—measuring 1.64 by 2.85 metres (5.4 by 9.4 feet) [ 1 ] —the painting depicts one or more icebergs in the afternoon ...