Tag Archives: Landscape painting

Paul Sandby and his “Real Views from Nature”

Posted on 04/03/2023 by The Gardens Trust

Every so often an artist comes along who manages to change the way people think about or record the world, and in the process help launch a new kind of art. It happened in the mid-18thc in Britain when a … Continue reading →

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John Glover & his “hideous fidelity to Nature”

Posted on 18/09/2021 by The Gardens Trust

WELCOME TO OUR 400th POST! This is an artist’s painting of his own house and garden. Any idea of where it might be? The artist was John Glover who was born near Leicester in 1767 but, despite the very English … Continue reading →

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A Triple Portrait

Posted on 18/01/2020 by The Gardens Trust

I often get asked to lecture about gardens and landscapes in art, and although I like talking about pictures that people probably don’t know, I always like to include one that everybody thinks they know very well but actually probably … Continue reading →

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The View from Room 35….

Posted on 09/03/2019 by The Gardens Trust

Last week’s post about finding a display of Barbie dolls in  an historic Spanish garden was a good indication of how varied garden history can be, and today’s is another. In fact today’s is hardly about gardens at all in … Continue reading →

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Anthony Devis: Georgian topographical artist

Posted on 28/10/2017 by The Gardens Trust

No it’s not a repeat. It’s true there was a post about the 18thc artist  Arthur Devis a few month ago but this one is about his half-brother Anthony.  While Arthur specialised in conversation piece portraits Anthony turned to topography and became … Continue reading →

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