Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscape

“Have just returned from a tour in search of the picturesque, ” wrote Thomas Cole in his diary on 8 July 1837, “[...] To Mr Durand the scenery was entirely new and I am happy in ha...

Wooded Mountain Landscape with Waterfall and Travellers is a magnificent fantasy landscape in the Flemish tradition, painted in the first half of the 17th century by the Antwerp pa...

Landscape was a leading genre in 17th-century Dutch painting. During that century Dutch artists succeeded in formulating a type of representation that allowed them to depict the wo...

This painting was part of a ‘historical gallery’, a collection of paintings and sculptures glorifying Dutch art. The landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael was one of the 17th-centur...

“The whole landscape, which, seen by a favourable light, and in a genial temperature, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects w...