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Lot Essay
Studio magazine coined the term 'new romantic' for Norfolk painter Arnesby Brown's distinctive approach to landscape. His panoramic views, dotted with human figures or animals, are often dwarfed by the impressive skies so characteristic of this region. Imbuing everything with texture, Brown paints clouds with as much sinewy verve as the furrows of the earth.
Arnesby Brown attended Hubert Von Herkomer's famous art school at Bushey, Hertfordshire. However the artist always cited the French Barbizon school as the greatest influence upon his work: painters like Corot and Daubigny who never moved beyond a certain degree of abstraction, and are thereby termed classicists rather than modernists.
The Chantrey bequest purchased three of Brown's pictures for the Tate: Morning (1901), Silver Morning (1910) and The Line of the Plough (1919). The latter work was displayed at the recent exhibition A Picture of Britain, as an example of how painters used the organic integrity of the landscape to express ideals central to the morale of post-war Britain.
Arnesby Brown attended Hubert Von Herkomer's famous art school at Bushey, Hertfordshire. However the artist always cited the French Barbizon school as the greatest influence upon his work: painters like Corot and Daubigny who never moved beyond a certain degree of abstraction, and are thereby termed classicists rather than modernists.
The Chantrey bequest purchased three of Brown's pictures for the Tate: Morning (1901), Silver Morning (1910) and The Line of the Plough (1919). The latter work was displayed at the recent exhibition A Picture of Britain, as an example of how painters used the organic integrity of the landscape to express ideals central to the morale of post-war Britain.