Famous Artists

The Art of the Landscape Project aims to learn more about famous landscape artists (past and present).  In general this blog is featuring 'museum quality' artists who are well known within the art community.  Others who may be less well know will also be featured usually because their landscape art is well regarded and/or unusual. 

I've developed resource websites about various artists who were well known for their landscape art. They include links to:

• information about their life and career as an artist 
• websites about the artist
• where you can see their work online
• art galleries and museums where you can see their work
• books about their work

BUT some of these now need to be moved from their present sites.

Database of landscape artists:  At the end, sites which list individual landscape artists in online databases are highlighted

British Landscape Artists

• Richard Wilson 
• Thomas Gainsborough
• George Stubbs

Paul Sandby

• Review: Paul Sandby - Picturing Britain Exhibition at the RA

• David Cox 
• John Sell Cotman
• Thomas Girtin
• William Dyce
• Richard Parkes Bonington, 

JMW Turner 

• About J.M.W. Turner - site in transition 
• Turner's Sketchbooks: 1790s

John Constable

• Visiting Constable Country;  
• Sketching Constable's Cornfield
• John Constable - Somerset House Terrace from Waterloo Bridge
• Painting a River Pageant

• Samuel Palmer, 
• John Martin 
• William Holman Hunt; 
• Ford Madox Brown
• Phillip Wilson Steer
• Alfred Wallis
• Paul Nash
• LS Lowry, 
• Atkinson Grimshaw, 
• the Heaton Coopers, 
• Samuel Peploe
• Eric Ravilious, 
• John Piper

Stanley Roy Badmin

• "February" by Stanley Roy Badmin RWS

• Graham Sutherland, 
• David Prentice, 
• Kurt Jackson,

David Hockney 

• About David Hockney - British Artist - site in transition
• Hockney: sketchbooks, iPad sketching and the Yosemite Valley; 
• David Hockney RA talks about landscape painting
• Hockney: 51 iPad drawings on paper - Winter to Spring in Woldgate
• Places to Paint: David Hockney and East Yorkshire
• Talking about Hockney's Landscape Painting

• Rowan Huntly: Extreme Plein Air - painting the Antarctic! 
• British Council - Landscape Art Collection lists various British artists who painted landscapes

British Land Artists

• Andy Goldsworthy

European Landscape Artists

Ambrogio Lorenzetti  

• Ambrogio Lorenzetti - the first panorama

• Giotto

Limbourg Brothers 

• March: Peasants at Work on a Feudal Estate by Limbourg brothers
• The Limbourg Brothers - and "September"
• "October" - Limbourg Brothers (Autumn Landscape #11)

• Piero della Francesco; 
• Massacio, 
• Andrea Mantegna, 
• Leonardo da Vinci 
• Georgione
• Pieter Brughal the Elder
• Jan van Eyck, 
• Rogier van der Weyden
• Albrecht Altdorfer 
• Joachim Patinir 
• Albrecht Durer
• El Greco 
• Claud Lorrain
• Salvator Rosa
• Nicolas Poussin
• Peter Paul Rubens 
• Jacon van Ruisdel 
• Aelbbert Cuyp 
• William van der Velde  

Jan Siberechts 

• Painting the Thames: Jan Siberechts

• Watteau
• Piranesi

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonion Canal)

• Canaletto - Painting Britain
• Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant and Canaletto's Thames Pageants #1
• Painting a River Pageant

Johan Christian Dahl

• Johan Christian Dahl (1788-1857)

• Caspar David Friedrich, 
• Albert Bierstadt, 
• Karl Blechen  
• Camille Corot, 
• Jean-François Millet, 
• Courbet, 
• Charles-François Daubigny, 
• Pierre Étienne 
• Théodore Rousseau, 
• Jules Dupré 

Paul Cezanne

Claude Monet 

• 40 Antibes landscapes in 4 months by Claude Monet; 
• Film of Claude Monet painting waterlilies at Giverny

Camille Pissaro 

• The Louvre, March Mist - Pissaro (Spring Landscape #1)

Berthe Morisot 

• Spring Landscape #2 - by Berthe Morisot

• Alfred Sisley
• Seurat

Vincent Van Gogh

• Van Gogh's approach to drawing landscapes; 
• Van Gogh's Perspective Frame; 
• Van Gogh's Palette 1882

• Paul Gauguin
• Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida 
• Andre Derain, 
• Henri Matisse 
• Aksell Gallen-Kallela
• Valentin Serov, 
• Konstantin 
• Alekseyevich Korovin, 
• Ivan Shishkin, 

Isaac Levitan

• 'March' by Isaac Levitan (Spring Landscape #4)

• Gustav Klimt
• Utrillo
• Magritte, 
• Dali

Pablo Picasso

• Spanish Landscapes - and Picasso 

North American Landscape Artists

USA

• Winslow Homer
• Andrew Wyeth
• James McNeil Whistler - JM Whistler's pastel landscapes of Venice
• Childe Hassam - View of the Thames by Childe Hassam
• Willard Metcalf - Paintings of water in March by Willard Metcalf
• Georgia O'Keeffe - Georgia O'Keeffe's landscapes of northern New Mexico
• Wolf Kahn - Wolf Kahn - 6 good reasons not to paint a landscape

Canada

• Visionary Landscapes in the Americas about native art in Canada
• Group of Seven - Canada : Canada's Group of Seven at Algoma
• Emily Carr (1871-1945)

Asian Landscape Artists

JAPAN

Muromachi Period (1333-1573)

• Sesshu Toyo, 
• Kano Eitoku, 
• Hasagawa Tohaku

Edo Period (1615-1858) 

• Hokusai

• Hiroshige: The Art of Hiroshige - includes references to The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road - described as a series of naturalistic views with landscapes and people and One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1856-8) 

CHINA

Song Dynasty (960-1279)

• DongYuan, 
• Guo Xi 
• Ju Ran; 

Southern Song Dynasty (1172-1279)

• Ma Yuan 
• Xia Gui; 

Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368)

• Huang Gongweng, 
• Wu Zhen, 
• Ni Zan 
• Wang Meng 

Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644)

• Dai Yin, 
• Shen Zou, 
• Weng Zhengming, 
• Yang Yin, 
• Qui Ying, 
• Dong Qichang, 

Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) 

• Zha Du, 
• the Four Wangs: Wang Shimin, Wang Hui, Wang Jian, Wang Yunagi, 
• Wu Li, 
• Shitao, 
• Hongren, 
• Kuncan, 
• Gong Xian 

Australasian Landscape Artists

AUSTRALIA

• About Arthur Streeton - Australian Landscape Painter

NEW ZEALAND

• Landscapes at Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand

Landscape Art Databases - indexed by artists

• Artcyclopedia - Artists by Subject Matter:  Landscape Painters Chronological Listing
• Artcyclopedia - Artists by Subject Matter:  Maritime Painters Chronological Listing