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Wednesday, 21 November 2018

Jan Siberechts (1627–c.1700), English Landscape Painting



Jan Siberechts (Wikipedia): "The topographical views he created in England stand at the beginning of the English landscape tradition"


View of a House and its Estate in Belsize, Middlesex, 1696 (Tate)


"His undated View of Nottingham and the Trent (Coll. Lord Middleton, Birdsall House, Yorks.) is possibly among the earliest of British landscape paintings", Tate


View of Nottingham from the East


Art UK, Longleat House


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Author of Words on the Table (207 poems); This Spinning World (45 Stories), Colenso Books; Reading the Signs (environmental poems); Corfu Blues (poems and essays); The Ionian Islands and Epirus, A Cultural History (Signal Books, Oxford, and OUP, USA, 2010); co-editor of Swedish Reflections, from Beowulf to Bergman; Dorset Voices (Roving Press, April 2012). Chapter in Greece and Britain Since 1945 (2010). Two chapters in The Ionian Islands: Aspects of their History and Culture, ed. Anthony Hirst and Patrick Sammon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 3) Grockles and Locals: Mutual Perceptions and the Reciprocal Gaze, A Corfu Case Study (40 page chapter for US book Tourism and Identity (Transaction Publishers, ed Gabriel Ricci, 2015). NB - The author of Corfu Blues is not responsible for the content of links or external sites.
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