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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.
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