Old London Bridge, on the River Dodder, Dublin (1841)

"Old London Bridge, on the River Dodder, Dublin" (1841) is a work by George Victor du Noyer. Landscape, a short history: Landscape became an independent genre in European painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, while in East Asia it had long been central to ink painting. Painters have used landscape to study light, weather, season, and the relation between people and place. Context for 1841: Landscape gained new prestige through groups such as the Barbizon painters in France and the Hudson River School in the United States, and by mid-century Realism turned to ordinary people and everyday labour. The first half of the nineteenth century moved from Neoclassicism to Romanticism, which placed emotion, nature, and the sublime at the centre of painting. The catalogue places it in Landscape. The format is landscape.

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Irish, 1817–1869

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