“To the Lakes!”: Local artistic perspectives
with guest speaker Jeff Cowton MBE, Principal Curator & Head of Learning at the Wordsworth Trust
Monday 20 May, 5pm, UoB Arts Building, Room G20 and on zoom (please register here for the link) with Jessica Fay in response and conversation.
The Lake District attracted outside tourists and artists from around 1750 onwards. However, their experiences were partly shaped by the writers and artists local to the area. Join us as Jeff Cowton focuses on the writers and artists resident in what is now Cumbria during the late eighteenth century, their challenge to pictorial conventions surrounding landscape, and their engagement with the emergent tourism industry.
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William Green (1760-1823), View of Windermere and Belle Isle, pencil and watercolour, Eton College