THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN WATER-COLOURS EDITED BY CHARLES HOLME. TEXT BY ALEXANDER J. FINBERG & E. A. TAYLOR MCMXVIII “THE STUDIO” LTD. LONDON PARIS NEW YORK CONTENTS ARTICLES PAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN WATER-COLOURS. BY ALEXANDER J. FINBERG 1 (1) Introductory Remarks on the Idea of Development as Applied to Art 1 (2) The Bearing of these Remarks on the History of British Water-Colour Painting 3 (3) The Development of Subject-Matter and Technique 4 (4) Some Famous Water-Colour Painters of the Past 8 Paul Sandby 9 Alexander Cozens 10 John Robert Cozens 11 Thomas Girtin 13 Joseph Mallord William Turner 15 John Sell Cotman 17 David Cox 19 Samuel Prout 20 Peter de Wint 21 Richard Parkes Bonington 21 Myles Birket Foster 22 Alfred William Hunt 23 James Abbott McNeill Whistler 24 (5) The Work of To-day 26 THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN WATER-COLOURS: SCOTTISH PAINTERS. BY E. A. TAYLOR 29 ILLUSTRATIONS _AFTER ENGLISH PAINTERS_ _PLATE_ Birch, S. J. Lamorna, R.W.S. “Environs of Camborne” V Cotman, John Sell, R.W.S. “Kirkham Abbey” III Cozens, J. R. “Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo” I Fisher, Mark, A.R.A. “Landscape” VI Gere, Charles M. “The Round House” VII Girtin, Thomas. “The Valley of the Aire” II Goodwin, Albert, R.W.S. “Lincoln” VIII Holmes, C. J. “Near Aisgill” IX Little, Robert, R.W.S., R.S.W. “Tidal Basin, Montrose” X