Georges Seurat, The National Gallery(London), Painting in Focus, 13 May until 27 June 1976, Seurat's Bathers, Asnieres and the Crisis of Impressionism Poster (1976)

"Here is portrayed three Moods of the Sky and the effects on the Fish and Animals. Sharks and Turtles come to the Surface when it is Raining. Wallabies and Kangaroos are out feedin...

Pissarro’s landscape are usually inhabited and worked. Traditional landscapes often incorporate ancient ruins and timeless figures in harmony with nature, such as bathers or nymphs...

Arthur (James) Lewis (1824-1901), husband of Kate Terry, and grandfather of John Gielgud. It appears he was also a painter and a musician, with a connection to J M Whistler. Arthur...

In the field of French art, both academic and avant-garde, the 1880s were an unusually turbulent decade. The last official state-sponsored Salon, an institution that had been in ex...

Camille Corot, whose art was halfway between Romanticism and Realism, preferred to paint a nature that inspired poetry and bucolic fantasy than to render it realistically as Courbe...