Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Banks of a River

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (July 16, 1796 – February 22, 1875) was a French landscape painter and printmaker in etching. Corot was the leading painter of the Barbizon school of France in the mid-nineteenth century. He is a pivotal figure in landscape painting and his vast output simultaneously references the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipates the plein-air innovations of Impressionism (from wikipedia).

Théodore Rousseau (1*)

Sunset in the Auvergne (detail), 1844

Pierre Étienne Théodore Rousseau (April 15, 1812 – December 22, 1867) was a French painter of the Barbizon school.
Rousseau's pictures are always grave in character, with an air of exquisite melancholy. They are well finished when they profess to be completed pictures, but Rousseau spent so much time developing his subjects that his absolutely completed works are comparatively few. He left many canvases with parts of the picture realized in detail and with the remainder somewhat vague; and also a good number of sketches and water-color drawings. His pen work in monochrome on paper is rare. There are a number of good pictures by him in the Louvre, and the Wallace collection contains one of his most important Barbizon pictures. There is also an example in the Ionides collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Rousseau

Canadian artists

Edward Mitchell Bannister

Sunset, 1883

Edward Mitchell Bannister (ca. 1828 – 1901) was a Black Canadian-American painter whose tonalism and predominantly pastoral subject matter owed much to his admiration for Millet and the French Barbizon School.

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Barry Coombs

Landscape

American landscapes: George Inness

Sunset, 1865

Lake Nemi, 1872

Sunset at Etretat 1875

Study for the Catskills, circa 1875



Spring Blossoms, Montclair, c.1891

George Inness (1825 – 1894) was an influential American landscape painter. His work was influenced, in turn, by that of the old masters, the Hudson River school, the Barbizon school, and, finally, by the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, whose spiritualism found vivid expression in the work of Inness' maturity. Often called "the father of American landscape painting," Inness is best known for these mature works that not only exemplified the Tonalist movement but also displayed an original and uniquely American style.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Inness