Famous Landscapes
Celebrated Landscape Paintings by Famous Artists: Plein-Air/Studio Landscapes: JMW Turner, Jean-Baptiste Corot, Claude Monet.
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The Burning of the Houses of Lords
and Commons (1835) by William Turner.

Celebrated Landscape Paintings

Up until the late seventeenth century, little landscape painting was produced that was devoid of narrative. This was due to the influence of Academic art, that ranked landscapes low on the hierarchy of genres, according to the traditions of fine art established by the Italian Renaissance. Here is our selected list of the best landscape paintings, including scenic views of countryside, seascapes and townscapes by Old Masters and later famous artists.


View of Delft (1660-1) by Jan Vermeer.

Famous Landscapes of the Sixteenth Century

Giorgione: The Tempest (c.1506).
Joachim Patinir: Landscape with St Jerome (1515-24).
Albrecht Altdorfer: Landscape with a Footbridge (c.1520).
Albrecht Durer: Watercolours of his journey to Italy (1490s).
Pieter Bruegel The Elder: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c.1558).
El Greco: View of Toledo (c.1597).

 


Ville d'Avray (1867) by Corot.

Famous Landscapes of the Seventeenth Century

Salomon van Ruysdael: Wooded River Landscape (c.1640).
Claude Lorrain: Landscape with the marriage of Issac and Rebekah (1648).
Aelbert Cuyp: Dordrecht from the North (1650).
Jacob van Ruisdael: A Waterfall in a Rocky Landscape (c.1660), An Extensive Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Village Church (c.1670).
Jan Vermeer: View of Delft (1661).


Nocturne: Blue And Silver Chelsea
(1871) by James McNeil Whistler

WORLDS TOP LANDSCAPES
For the greatest view painters, see:
Best Landcape Artists.

Famous Landscapes of the Eighteenth Century

Jean-Antoine Watteau: A Journey to Cythera (1717).
Giovanni Antonio Canaletto: The Basin of St Marco, Ascension Day (1740).
Thomas Gainsborough: Cornard Wood (1748).
Bernardo Bellotto: Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice (1741); View of Warsaw from the Royal Castle (1772).
Richard Wilson: The Destruction of Niobe's Children (1760).
William Marlowe: The Pont du Gard Nimes (1767).
Jean-Honore Fragonard: The Swing (1767).
Francesco Zuccarelli: An Italianate River Landscape.
Giovanni Panini: Ruins with Figures.
Francesco Guardi: Landscape with Ruins (1775).
John Robert Cozens: London From Greenwich Hill (1791).
Thomas Girtin: The White House Chelsea (1799).

 

Famous Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century

The English School of landscape artists and the advent of French Impressionism in the last quarter of the century each boosted the quality and appeal of landscape painting. The Barbizon School led to a mini-Renaissance of plein-air landscapes across Europe, as far as the Wanderers Movement in Russia.

John Sell Cotman: Chirk Aquaduct (1804).
Casper David Friedrich: Winter Landscape (1811).
John Constable: Boat-building Near Flatford Mill (1815), Hay Wain (1821).
JMW Turner: Hannibal and His Army Crossing the Alps (1812), The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835), The Fighting Temeraire (1839);
Thomas Cole: The Last of the Mohicans (1826).
Theodore Rousseau: Sunset in the Auvergne (1830), The Forest of Fontainebleau, Morning (1850).
George Caleb Bingham: Fur Trappers Descending the Missouri (1845).
John Martin: The Great Day of His Wrath (1853).
Frederic Edwin Church: Cotopaxi (1862, Detroit Institute of Arts).
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot: Souvenir de Mortefontaine (1864), Ville d'Avray (1875).
James McNeil Whistler: Harmony in Grey - Chelsea in Ice (1864), Blue and Silver, Chelsea (1871).
Claude Monet: Impression Sunrise (1873), the Haystack and Water Lily series and others.
Alfred Sisley: Women Going to the Woods (1866), Snow at Louveciennes (1878), Floods at Port Marly (1890), The Moret Bridge in the Sun (1892), The Bridge at Moret (1893).
Atkinson Grimshaw: Nightfall Down the Thames (1880).
Edouard Vuillard: In the Garden (1894).
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Nude in the Sunlight (1876), The Bridge of the Railway at Chatou (1881).
Camille Pissaro: Autumn (1870), Landscape at Chaponval (1880), Peasants Resting (1881), Foxhill: Upper Norwood (1870), Boulevard Monmartre (1897), The Tuileries Gardens, Rainy Weather (1899).
Vincent Van Gogh: Cherry Tree (1888); The Old Mill (1888); Bridge at Arles (1888); View of Arles with Irises (1888); Cypresses (1889); View of Arles (Flowering Orchards) (1889); Starry Night (1889); The Olive Pickers (1889); Wheat Field with Crows (1890).
Georges Seurat: A Sunday Afternoon on Island of La Grange Jatte (1884).
Peter Severin Kroyer: Summer Evening on the Southern Beach (1893).
Winslow Homer: Eight Bells (1886).

Famous Landscapes of the Twentieth Century

Paul Signac: The Papal Palace, Avignon (1900).
Picasso: Blue Roofs (1901).
Paul Cezanne: Montagne Sainte-Victoire with Trees and a House; La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (1904-6).
Alexei von Jawlensky: Landscape, Murnau (1909).
Oskar Kokoschka: View of the Thames in the Evening (1926).
Max Ernst: The Entire City (1935).
Paul Nash: Dead Sea (1940-41).;
Ben Nicholson: St Ives, Cornwall (1943-45).
Andrew Wyeth: Christina's World (1948).
Jack B Yeats: The Basin in Which Pilate Washed his Hands (1951).
Carel Weight: Daisy in the Garden (1962).

For examples of Irish painters, see Irish Landscape Artists.

• For more about the different types of painting (portraits, landscapes, still-lifes etc) see: Painting Genres.
• For details of landscape and portraiture in Ireland, see: Irish Art Guide


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