. A short history of art . HENRY RAEEURX MRS. CAMPBELL OF BALLIEMORE Illustrates the artists simple and direct metluid and liis ability to render the charm and character of a X EARLY BRITISH LANDSCAPE PAINTING We have seen that, while the Hollanders of the seventeenthcentury founded a school of Naturalistic landscape, theirFrench contemporary, Claude Lorrain, invented the Classicallandscape. The vogue of the latter lasted throughout theeighteenth century, and its influence affected the first ofthe English landscape painters. Wilson (1714-1782) This was Richard Wilson, a Welshman,
. A short history of art . HENRY RAEEURX MRS. CAMPBELL OF BALLIEMORE Illustrates the artists simple and direct metluid and liis ability to render the charm and character of a X EARLY BRITISH LANDSCAPE PAINTING We have seen that, while the Hollanders of the seventeenthcentury founded a school of Naturalistic landscape, theirFrench contemporary, Claude Lorrain, invented the Classicallandscape. The vogue of the latter lasted throughout theeighteenth century, and its influence affected the first ofthe English landscape painters. Wilson (1714-1782) This was Richard Wilson, a Welshman, born at Pinegas,Montgomeryshire, the son of a clergyman. He studied inLondon with an obscure portrait painter, and himself com-menced his career in portraiture. But he paid a visit toItaly, where in Venice he met Zuccarelli and Vemet, whoinduced him to turn to landscape painting. He soon acquireda reputation among Italian artists for his work in thisline, and when, after an absence of six years, he returned toLondon, created a great impression by exhibiting his Niobe, which is now in the National Gallery. But the ap-preciation of landscape painting at that time in England wasvery
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