Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
Elsewhere in Europe, John Constable, the English Romantic painter of the early 19th cen-
tury, is intimately associated with the River Stour particularly. Constable was born in East
Bergholt, a village on the Stour in East Anglia, and the area around the river - Dedham
Vale - has become known since the artist's lifetime as Constable Country. At more or less
the same time, the work of the Chernetsov brothers on the River Volga sparked a greater
appreciation of landscape in Russian art (see below).
10. The Skiff (La Yole),
paintedin1875byPierre-AugusteRenoir.Thesceneisseton
the River Seine, which provided a great influence for many Impressionist painters
In North America, an artist named Thomas Cole made his first trip up the Hudson River
to Catskill in 1825 and the paintings that resulted from this foray created a sensation in the
nascent New York art world. The resulting Hudson River School lays claim to being the
first coherent school of art in the USA. The group's members initially focused on panor-
amas along the Hudson in New York State, in celebration of the untamed landscapes, but
their scope later widened to include subjects as distant as South America and the Arctic.
Another US artist whose work is closely associated with a river, in this case the Missis-
sippi, is John Banvard. In 1840, Banvard began painting large panoramas of the Mississippi
