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Wootton, John
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From: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
Date: 20030101
Author:IAN CHILVERS
Wootton, John
( c. 1682–1764). English landscape and sporting painter. He is best known for pictures involving horses, with which he made a handsome living, but his main contribution to British painting was the introduction of the ideal landscape — Horace Walpole said his works in this vein ‘approached towards Gaspar Poussin [i.e. Dughet ], and sometimes imitated happily the glow of Claude Lorrain’. His landscape manner was continued by George Lambert .Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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