A chance discovery on the BBC iPlayer last night of a programme that originally aired in 2011 offering an overview of British landscape painting. It is so apt it could easily be recommended watching for this course. Its scope is wide ranging, all the way up to contemporary work, but is particularly good on early exponents and the development of conventions, not just here but also in Europe. Claude Lorrain, Gainsborough, Turner, all make substantial appearances. Not the most critically engaged of programmes, and the narrator Simon Callow has his finest posh actor voice on, which can get a bit wearying, but nevertheless an enjoyable and occasionally enlightening canter through the history of this genre as it specifically developed in this country and focusing on British landscapes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01173pk/this-green-and-pleasant-land-the-story-of-british-landscape-painting

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