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The correct answer to today's quiz is that it is a picture done in the style of van Dyke by Eric Hebborn. It was bought by the British Museum in 1970 as a study for the painting now at @museodelprado and was denounced as a fake in 1978. Congrats to @idriches
Although earlier realism was in vogue on both sides of the Atlantic, Winslow Homer's 'On a Lee Shore,' (1900) is painted with an earthy sense of honesty when depicting a time and place, a style exemplified by such painters as Courbet, Jean-Francois Millet and Honoré Daumier.
'Green Park, London,' (1957) Howard Veal was a great exponent of Australian Tonalism. It involves no under drawing and is based on the rapid and direct recording of tonal impressions of light and dark to create an exact illusion of nature.
In 1821 Constable began making direct studies in the open air of cloud formations. These were mostly made from the high ground at Hampstead as this was an ideal observation point. Some sketches show clouds only and others like this show the top of trees.
'Sailing on the River Bure,' is speckled with silver light and was painted early in Alfred Munnings career. What you realise from his paintings is that he was a thinker and not so much a sensualist so can raise an ordinary moment to one of symbolic grandeur.
In 1941 Keith Vaughan reported to Bulford camp, near Amesbury in Wiltshire and at the end of his first year in the army had filled five books with sketches of his fellow recruits. The strong contrast of black or sepia shadow make these works very dramatic.
In 'Essex Housing Estate,' (1954) Edward Bawden creates a world that, without being cloyingly nostalgic, is full of charm, understated sophistication, and delicate fancy. His teasing yet reassuring style and of altering perspective owes much to the Cubists.
'Var, South of France.' In 1933 Sir Matthew Smith moved to Cagnes-sur-Mer in the South of France between Nice and Cannes and the Hôtel Le Cagnard became his base for the next two years. This view looks towards Cap d'Antibes.
Henry Lamb painted 'The Traveller' in 1911 for Lady Ottoline Morrell with whom he had a passionate affair. The subject of the painting is unknown, but at the time Lady Morrell inspired Lamb to create allegorical pictures possibly influenced by the Ballet Russes and Picasso.
Winifred Knight's 'The Potato Harvest,' (1918) shows a frieze of male and female workers in social and economic harmony on the land. The distant fields have been flattened into a patchwork quilt of contrasting colours, out of which rise strong verticals of haystacks and ladders.