Art critic Barry Schwabsky’s new book, Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism (DAP), delivers a global and multi-generational perspective on what may be the most ...

Landscape painting is a well-known type of art that often shows a scene from nature, such as the countryside. Landscape paintings may include people or animals but the focus is the scenery.

The artist captured an everyday English scene with revelatory naturalism in this 1821 painting, which is among the stars of the National Gallery’s recently reinstalled collection.