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Description: | Landscape painting was very popular with the Victorians, who felt that the beauty of nature was a welcome change to the grimy cities and noisy factories which sprang up with industrialisation. Before the Industrial Revolution many people had lived and worked on the land and in the countryside, moving to busy and overcrowded towns to find jobs working in factories. The work of George Vicat Cole was greatly influenced by the brilliant painter Turner, the writings of Ruskin who was a respected artist and philosopher, and Pre-Raphaelite paintings. As a young man Cole rebelled against his Father who had trained him, displaying enthusiasm for the art and artists of his own age. Leaving for London in 1855 he called himself Vicat Vole, preferring his Mother's maiden name to a link with his Father. He was the first landscape painter for 30 years to become a full Royal Academician in 1880 which was quite an achievement at the time.
Oil painting showing a mountain landscape with mountain river. Sheep are grazing on a lower slope. The sky is blue with wispy white cloud. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Fine arts Countryside Landscape Oil painting Oil Paintings Victorian period Art collections | Temporal: | 1840 - 1893
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | COLE; George Vicat (1833 - 1893) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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