English landscape school

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The English landscape school was an 18th- and 19th-century movement in British painting known for its naturalistic, atmospheric depictions of the countryside that helped elevate landscape to a major artistic genre.

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instanceOf art movement
painting school
artisticPeriod 18th century
19th century
associatedWith Picturesque aesthetic
Romanticism NERFINISHED
Sublime aesthetic
characteristic atmospheric effects
attention to light and weather
emphasis on rural scenery
naturalistic depictions of the countryside
poetic mood
contrastedWith history painting dominance
country England
United Kingdom
developedFrom Dutch Golden Age landscape painting
classical landscape tradition
field landscape painting
genre landscape art
impact elevated landscape painting within academic hierarchies
shaped European perception of English countryside
influenced Barbizon school
Hudson River School
Impressionism
Romantic landscape painting
status of landscape as major artistic genre
institutionalContext Norwich School of painters
Royal Academy of Arts
languageOfName English
movementIn British painting
notableArtist Francis Towne NERFINISHED
J. M. W. Turner
John Constable NERFINISHED
John Crome
John Sell Cotman
Paul Sandby
Richard Wilson NERFINISHED
Samuel Palmer NERFINISHED
Thomas Gainsborough ONNED1
relatedConcept English landscape garden
subjectMatter English countryside
changing skies and clouds
rivers and coasts
rural labor
technique oil sketches from nature
plein air sketching
watercolor landscape
timePeriodEnd mid-19th century
timePeriodStart mid-18th century

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Claude Lorrain influenced English landscape school
Claude Gellée influenced English landscape school