Dimensions: support: 303 x 423 mm
Copyright: CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Curator: Here we have George Lambert's "Moorland Landscape with Rainstorm," currently residing in the Tate Collections. Editor: Oh, a proper brooding sky! It feels like you can almost smell the damp earth. Curator: Lambert, born in 1700, straddled the line between the picturesque and the sublime. Notice how the rain seems to weave itself from the clouds, almost tangible, and the figures scurrying about in the foreground. Editor: I find myself drawn to the houses in the distance—they seem almost toy-like against this grand theatre of nature. It makes me wonder, what stories are unfolding inside those small homes? Curator: The composition guides the eye—the dark foreground rises to meet the illuminated fields. Editor: Yes! It's almost a metaphor, isn't it? A storm might come, but life, in its modest form, carries on. Curator: Precisely, a testament to the interplay of material conditions and human resilience. Editor: A landscape that captures not just a place, but a feeling.
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Lambert, a landscape and scenery painter, was a friend of Hogarth and Samuel Scott, and a respected member of London's artistic community. He was the first native-born painter to devote himself entirely to landscape, both classical and topographical. This seems to be an exercise in pure landscape painting for its own sake, concentrating on the weather effects across a bleak Northern moorland. Although it attempts to capture the atmosphere of the open surroundings it is unlikely to have been painted on the spot. Lambert's method was to make pencil drawings of a location which he worked up in oils later on in his studio. Gallery label, September 2004
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