Monday, September 7, 2020

British Landscape Paintings (Inhabited by Architecture) - I

Joseph Mallord William Turner
Linlithgow Palace
ca. 1807
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

William Havell
View near Rome
1828-29
oil on panel
Reading Museum, Berkshire

Richard Parkes Bonington
Piazza San Marco, Venice
1828
oil on canvas (unfinished)
Wallace Collection, London

David Roberts
Ruins of a Temple and an Amphitheatre
1832
oil on canvas
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

William James Blacklock
The Terrace, Haddon Hall
1845
oil on canvas
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria

The possibility – to pass
Without a moment's Bell –
Into Conjecture's presence
Is like a Face of Steel –
That suddenly looks into ours
With a metallic grin –
The Cordiality of Death –
Who drills his Welcome in –

– Emily Dickinson (1861)

James Holland
A Recollection of Venice
ca. 1850
oil on panel
Tate Britain

William Parrott
The Fountain Port of Genoa
1855
oil on canvas
Touchstone Rochdale, Lancashire

Robert Collinson
Buildings in the Grounds of the South Kensington Museum in 1862
1862
oil on canvas
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Benjamin Williams Leader
The Moated Grange
1868
oil on canvas
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, Merseyside

William White Warren
The Dogana and Church of the Salute, Venice
ca. 1880
oil on panel
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

William Logsdail
Mestre, near Venice
1881
oil on canvas
Usher Gallery, Lincoln

Clarence Roe
Palmyra, Syria
ca. 1890
oil on canvas
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull

Thomas Edwin Mostyn
A Garden by Night
ca. 1890
oil on canvas
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery, Hertfordshire

Henry Woods
Cloisters, the Church of the Frari, Venice
1893
oil on canvas
Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Cheshire

John Fulleylove
The Garden of the Cardinal
ca. 1898
oil on canvas
Russel-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth