Item : 351401
19th century English School. "Wooded landscape with lake".
Period: First half of the 19th century
19th century English School. Oil painting on canvas.
Examined under Wood's lamp, the painting shows no restoration.
Measurements 81x128 cm, with contemporary pastille frame 155x110 cm.
The landscape depicted here is a hymn to nature, woods, lake and sky, there is no human presence, nor the presence of animals. The painting, almost monochrome, transports us to a feeling of peace and tranquility. This type of pictorial art is believed to be linked to the literary and artistic school of the Lake Poets. The Lake Poets were a group of poets, writers and artists who all lived in the area known as the Lake District, in the north-west of England, during the first half of the 19th century.
As a group, they did not follow any specific 'school' of thought or literary practice then known, although their works were uniformly scorned by the Edinburgh Review. They are considered a characteristic current of the romantic movement.
William Wordsworth, among the main exponents of early British Romanticism, expressed in his poems the pantheistic spiritual tendency, making nature and its laws the only true creed to which one can submit.