Download 19Th Century English Landscape Painting Valley With Mountains And Lake Background. Antique 19th century oil painting forest glade , lake & swans swimming 19th century painting autumn landscape country road mountain with red trees. Later in the century paintings of snowy mountains and romantic mists were used in international exhibitions to attract tourists to 'beautiful new zealand'.
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'icebergs and wreck in sunset' was created in 1860 by frederic edwin church in romanticism style. Landscape painting represents both a portrayal of nature itself and a codified illustration of the human view of nature and the world. As the industrial revolution altered the traditions of rural life, the old hierarchy of subjects crumbled. Painters ignored people or scenes in landscape art, and made the land itself the subject of paintings.