Room 127

English Landscape and Watercolour

1763–1885, England, Wales, Italy, Romanticism

In the late eighteenth century English artists made watercolour a great art in its own right. Paul Sandby and Francis Towne drew castles, coasts and the Alps; Thomas Girtin and John Sell Cotman painted with broad, clear areas of colour. John Constable tirelessly studied clouds and the light over his native Suffolk, Samuel Palmer painted moonlit fields like visions, and Edward Lear travelled with his sketchbook as far as Italy.

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