Milestones in Landscape Painting Talk 2: British Romantics

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.

There are three talks in this series. Each talk needs to be booked separately. The other talks are:

Talk 1 - Tue 24 Mar 2026: MILESTONES IN LANDSCAPE PAINTING TALK 1: DUTCH PAINTERS | Ashmolean Museum
Talk 3 - Tue 7 Apr 2026: MILESTONES IN LANDSCAPE PAINTING 3: POST IMPRESSIONISTS | Ashmolean Museum

This event is part of our Shaped by Nature 2026 season of events.