British Council British Council Visual Arts

• Animals, birds and fish
  • 309 Works
• Architecture
  • 257 Works
• Boats and ships
  • 5 Works
• Cinema, music and theatre
  • 97 Works
• Cityscape
  • 60 Works
• Food and drink
  • 46 Works
• Furniture
  • 4 Works
• Interiors
  • 158 Works
• Landscape
  • 351 Works
• Leisure, pastimes and sport
  • 117 Works
• Literature and Fiction
  • 347 Works
• Mythological
  • 73 Works
• Narrative and story telling
  • 97 Works
• Nature
  • 549 Works
• Nudes
  • 34 Works
• Object
  • 296 Works
• People
  • 928 Works
• Places
  • 326 Works
• Portraiture
  • 242 Works
• Religion and Belief
  • 54 Works
• Representational
  • 80 Works
• Science and Technology
  • 25 Works
• Society and culture
  • 35 Works
• Society and politics
  • 123 Works
• Still Life
  • 135 Works
• Travel
  • 57 Works
• Water
  • 125 Works
• Work and Occupations
  • 93 Works

Eveleen Buckton, NANT GWYNANT, 1943

• Landscape

• Landscape is one of the principle genres of Western art. In early paintings the landscape was a backdrop for the composition, but in the late 17th Century the appreciation of nature for its own sake began with the French and Dutch painters (from whom the term derived). Their treatment of…

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