However, he went on to criticise the picture’s lack of naturalism, perhaps caused in part by Gainsborough’s use of a model including broccoli and coal: 'Nothing can be more attractively luminous or aerial than the distance of the Gainsborough, nothing more bold or inventive than the forms of its crags and the diffusion of the broad distant light upon them, where a vulgar artist would have thrown them into dark contrast.’ ![]() ![]() The Victorian writer and artist John Ruskin had mixed views about ‘Romantic Landscape’. She also speculates on whether the painting has Christian symbolism. She believes that the picture has 'a primordial atmosphere' as well as 'some charming detail', such as the goat climbing on the well spring - 'moments of levity in an otherwise heavyweight picture'. Susan Sloman observes that there is a 'bowl-like hollow' in the centre of the painting 'that shelters the figures and animals and, at the same time, isolates them from the outside world'. The sheep are spotlit in a way that implies the sun is to the left, but in the background it seems to be rising or setting near the distant mountain. In the centre, two shepherds are lost in thought while, to the left, the towering rocks loom over a bucolic scene of sheep grazing and a goat drinking from a spring. The large rocks here do look rather like pieces of coal. However, he in fact painted many of his landscapes in his studio from models made of things like cork, moss and broccoli. This picture is more dramatic, and larger, than Gainsborough’s earlier landscape paintings and may have been inspired by scenes he saw when he visited the West Country in 1782 and the Lake District in 1783. We have been selling online since 2002 and as you can see from our testimonials section we have had many thousands of happy customers.Romantic Landscape with Sheep at a Spring, To put it simply, we guarantee your satisfaction when ordering a painting from Ocean's Bridge.
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