Masters of English Landscape

A celebration of the great era of English landscape painting, which includes reproductions of masterpieces by famous artists such as Stubbs, Gainsborough and Turner, along with a text looking at their lives and work. Stimulated at first by the influence of Dutch and Flemish artists like VanDyke and of the Italians such as Canaletto, the art of the English landscape came into its own in the 18th century with Gainsborough, Alexander Cozens and Stubbs, later achieving its full flowering with Turner, Constable and Whistler before turning into the imaginary world of Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland. From idealized visions to hunting scenes, from Pre-Raphaelites to the postimpressionists, from romantic watercolors to marine painting, this comprehensive work turns the spotlight on more than 120 masterpieces