Oil paint on mahogany
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Robert Vernon
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/thomas-creswick-122" aria-label="More by Thomas Creswick" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Thomas Creswick</a>
Stile
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
adults
architecture
landscape
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
people
stile
stream
townscapes / man-made features
Townsend, H., ‘The Way to Church’
valley
water: inland
woman
wooded
<p>Vernon bought this picture for 40 guineas in May 1839, following an exhibition at the British Institution. Creswick was a Sheffield-born artist who studied under the Birmingham landscape painter J.V. Barber. He came to London in 1828. His consistent truth to nature was particularly admired, as were the cool greens he used in his palette which he combined with silvery effects of aerial perspective. In this he might perhaps have been influenced by the landscapes of the Frenchman J.B. Corot (1796-1875). Creswick soon became known as a landscape artist who, in a favourite expression of the time, 'always takes us out of doors'.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint mahogany
The Stile
support: 610 × 495 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
<p>Vernon bought this picture for 40 guineas in May 1839, following an exhibition at the British Institution. Creswick was a Sheffield-born artist who studied under the Birmingham <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> painter J.V. Barber. He came to London in 1828. His consistent truth to nature was particularly admired, as were the cool greens he used in his palette which he combined with silvery effects of aerial <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/perspective" title="Glossary definition for 'Perspective'"><span>perspective</span></a>. In this he might perhaps have been influenced by the landscapes of the Frenchman J.B. Corot (1796-1875). Creswick soon became known as a landscape artist who, in a favourite expression of the time, 'always takes us out of doors'.</p>
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adults architecture landscape literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) people stile stream townscapes / man-made features Townsend, H., ‘The Way to Church’ valley water: inland woman wooded