Brian Lukacher

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Nature and History in English Romantic Landscape
Painting

• Brian Lukacher

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Humphry Repton, View from my own cottage in
Essex (after) 1816, 7 x 9 in
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(top) Humphry Repton, Water at Wentworth,
YorkshireSite at Wentworth, South Yorkshire
before proposed landscaping(bottom) Humphry
Repton, Water at Wentworth, Yorkshire , Site at
Wentworth, South Yorkshire after proposed
landscaping
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Thomas Girtin, Kirkstall Abbey, 1800, watercolor,
12 x 20 in
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Thomas Girtin, Westminster and Lambeth, 1800.
This drawing, in watercolor over pen, is one of
six surviving drawings for an enormous circular
panorama of London painted in oils. It was called
Eidometropolis ('view of the mother city' in
Greek) and was exhibited to the public in 1802.
Girtin's announcement in the press described the
panorama as 108 feet long and eighteen feet high.
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John Constable, John Constables Flower Garden,
1815, oil on canvas, 13 x 20
John Constable, John Constables Kitchen Garden,
1815, oil on canvas, 13 x 20
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John Constable, The Hay Wain (Landscape, Noon),
1821, oil on canvas, 51 x 73 in
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John Constable, Dedham Vale, 1802, oil on canvas,
145 x 122 cmVictoria and Albert Museum, London
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John Constable, Hadleigh Castle, Mouth of the
Thames Morning After a Stormy Night, 1829, oil
on canvas, 48 x 65 in
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John Constable, Old Sarum, 1832, watercolor, 14 x
19 in
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Samuel Palmer, A Hilly Scene, ca. 1826,
watercolor, pen, and tempera, 8 x 5 in
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John Martin (English, 1789-1854),The Fall of
Ninevah, 1829, mezzotint, 36x26 in
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John Martin, Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand
Still upon Gibeon, 1816
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John Martin, The Last Man, oil on canvas, 1849
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John Martin, The Last Man, print, 1832
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J. M. W. Turner (English, 1775-1851)Self
Portrait, 1798
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J.M.W. Turner, Snow Storm Hannibal and His Army
Crossing the Alps 1812, oil on canvas, 57 x 93 in
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J.M.W. Turner, Dudley, Worcestershire, ca.
1831-2, watercolor, 11 x 16 in. How does this
night landscape of the city represent modern
industrial life? How can it be considered a
history painting?
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J.M.W. Turner, Slavers Throwing Overboard the
Dead and Dying Typhoon coming On, 1840, oil on
canvas, 36 x 54 in.
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J.M.W. Turner, detail of a female slave being
eaten by fish. Slavers Throwing Overboard the
Dead and Dying Typhoon coming On, 1840, oil on
canvas, 36 x 54 in.
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J.M.W. Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed The Great
Western Railway, 1844, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in
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J.M.W. Turner, Detail of Rain, Steam, and Speed
The Great Western Railway, 1844, oil on canvas,
36 x 48 in.
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J.M.W. Turner, The Morning after the Deluge, c.
1843, oil on canvas, 78.5 x 78.5 cm, Tate
Gallery, London