MILESTONES IN LANDSCAPE PAINTING TALK 2: BRITISH ROMANTICS

Tue 31 Mar 2026, 11am–12pm

At the Museum and Online

This event takes place in-person at the Museum, and online via Zoom.

Tickets are £8 each. Booking is essential. Book below

Please note the in-person talk at the Museum is now fully booked, but online tickets are still available.

With Alice Foster, Art Historian

The second talk in our series examining traditions of landscape painting, focuses on the British Romantics of the 19th century.

The British Romantic painters in the early 19th century captured nature as a visual homage to God’s creation, and on a big scale.

Their aim was to express the power of nature in all its forms ~ countryside, mountains, sea. Like the 17th-century Dutch painters they made the weather, often stormy and untamed, a focus of their artworks. Mankind sometimes appeared insignificant and vulnerable in these images. Artists like Turner and Constable will be discussed and with reference to their works in our collection.