Evening 1818 - 1819

plein-air, oil-paint

plein-air

oil-paint

landscape

charcoal art

oil painting

england

romanticism

genre-painting

"Evening" is a landscape oil painting by English artist John Linnell completed between 1818 and 1819. This painting, now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, depicts a tranquil scene of a rural landscape at dusk. The sky, awash with warm hues of orange and purple, dominates the composition, while the foreground features a group of figures silhouetted against the horizon. Linnell's use of light and shadow creates a sense of depth and atmosphere, conveying the soft light of approaching night. This work showcases the artist's meticulous attention to detail and his skillful rendering of natural forms.

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minneapolisinstituteofart about 1 year ago

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John Linnell was one of the most successful and influential landscape painters active in Great Britain during the first half of the 19th century. Along with John Varley, he pioneered the regular practice of plein-air painting along the Thames and in the suburbs of London. The intensity and the poetic sublimity of this representation of naturalistic phenomena are typical of Linnell's most accomplished works. It is a view of nature that would resonate through the 19th century not only in the works of many British imitators but also in those of many American painters, in particular those affiliated with the British-born artist Thomas Cole, his protégé Frederic Church, and their circle of Transcendentalists.