Edwin Ellis, Moorland

Edwin Ellis, MoorlandThis late 19th century watercolour by Edwin Ellis (1842 1895) depicts a boggy moorland under a brooding sky. Ellis was an accomplished English watercolourist, known predominantly for landscapes and maritime scenes. Two horses, led by a figure, pull a laden haycart towards a distant farmhouse. The foremost horse, illuminated in white, draws the eye, providing a visual starting point. Overhead, the clouds partially break to reveal the glow of a retiring

Painters such Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1638) would fill their scenes with an abundance of characters - each with their own story

Primarily known as a maritime painter

to this fair

This splendid mid-17th-century half-length portrait attributed to Flemish artist

Landscape painting during the late Georgian period was essentially a second-rate endeavour with the art-buying aristocracy preferring the prestige of history painting or portraiture

the Malmö konstmuseum

the youngest entrant to the Royal Academy was the great John Everett Millais (1829-1896)

this sublime homage respectfully conveys the allure of the original

Note the diagonal running from bottom left to top right

perhaps ahead of another work

An impressionistic oil on canvas depicting a view across a pond

Wainwright was sketching gnarled fishermen in dark interiors staring intently towards the breakers