But in the history of art, British landscape painting is a fairly recent ... Looking Across the Weir” from 1800 is a marvelous piece showing laborers repairing the weir. Girtin aimed to give ...

I'm very slow to the news that the MFA Houston opened a new temporary exhibition at the beginning of this year dedicated to ...

a London printing house compiled one artist's paintings of Crimean towns and landscapes to satisfy British curiosity about the peninsula. Nearly 200 years later, many of the sites remain in the ...

As Museum of Fine Arts, Houston celebrated the 100th anniversary of its inaugural building last fall, MFAH director and Margaret Alkek Williams Chair Gary Tinterow acknowledged that women were ...

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s ... British artist James Ward (1769–1859) in 1805, for instance, matter-of-factly portrayed the ...

out into the countryside to take a look at how we have depicted our landscape in art, discovering how the genre carried British painting to its highest eminence and won a place in the nation's heart.

"These paintings -- if accurate -- provide potentially valuable information about landscapes and forests in the mid-1800s, but up till now, the use of 19 th-century landscape art in historical ...

Melissa Gustin, curator of British Art, said the exhibition ... The exhibition has landscape paintings from the early 1800s including The Orchard (above) painted in 1887 Work from decorated ...