Landscape

John Bromley, who painted views of Wales, Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Cornwall, was active as an artist between 1876 and 1904. Often on a very large scale and melancholy in mood, his watercolours embodied the naturalistic trend in 19th-century British landscape painting, showing commonplace and unidealised aspects of nature. The expansive moorland scenery depicted here is devoid of the large forms and sweeping vistas of more ‘picturesque’ mountainous landscapes. The human interest of the scene is played down so that the two figures appear insignificant beneath the low-hanging clouds.