Carl Larsson
(1853 - 1919)
 

Carl Olof Larsson was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He is principally known for his watercolors of idyllic family life. He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot (Midwinter Sacrifice), a large painting now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Larsson

The Bridge (from the series A Home - 26 watercolours)
Date unknown
Aquarel on paper
32 x 432 cm
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
https://collection.nationalmuseum.se/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=24200&viewType=detailView

Francesco Guardi
(1712 - 1793)

 

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi  was an Italian painter, nobleman, and a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Guardi

Venice: the Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi
Before 1768
Oil on canvas
119 x 204 cm
Private collection. Sold by Christie’s (6 July 2017 for 26,205,000 GBP)
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6088940

Michele Marieschi
(1696 - 1744)
 

Michele Marieschi or Michele Giovanni Marieschi, also Michiel was an Italian painter and engraver. He is mainly known for his landscapes and cityscapes (vedute), or views, mostly of Venice. He also created architectural paintings, which reveal his interest in stage design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Marieschi

 

Ponte Rialto in Venice
C. 1735
Oil on canvas
41 x 52 cm
Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (National Museum in Warsaw)
https://cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl/pl/katalog/504802

John Atkinson Grimshaw
(1836 - 1893)
 

John Atkinson Grimshaw was an English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes. He was called a "remarkable and imaginative painter" by the critic and historian Christopher Wood in Victorian Painting (1999).

London Bridge by Night
1884
oil on canvas.
50.8 x 76.2 cm.
Private collection

Jan Both
(1610/1618 - 1652)

Jan Dirksz Both (between 1610 and 1618 - August 9, 1652) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher, who made an important contribution to the development of Dutch Italianate landscape painting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Dirksz_Both

Landscape with Ponte Molle
ca. 1652
Oil on canvas
97 x 111 cm
Private collection

Stanhope Forbes
(1857 - 1947)

Stanhope Alexander Forbes RA was a British artist and a founding member of the influential Newlyn school of painters. He was often called 'the father of the Newlyn School'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanhope_Forbes

The Bridge
1888
Oil on canvas
61 x 76.5 cm
Private collection
Sold for £93,750 inc. premium. 2019 auction at Bonhams

Anders Andersen-Lundby
(1841 - 1923)
 

Anders Andersen-Lundby was a Danish landscape painter. He was most associated with winter landscapes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Andersen-Lundby

Åløb gennem en sensommerskov.(A river running through a forest.)
between 1858 and 1923
Painting
28 x 39 cm
Private collection

Samuel Palmer
(1805 - 1881)

Samuel Palmer RWS Hon.RE (Hon. Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in Romanticism in Britain and produced visionary pastoral paintings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Palmer

Crossing the Bridge
1847
Watercolour and opaque watercolour over graphite on wove paper.
40,6 x 51 cm
The Morgan Library & Museum
https://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/315821

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

(1796 - 1875)

 

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot

Bridge on the Saône River at Mâcon

1834

oil on paper on canvas

25 x 33,6 cm

NGA

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52166.html

Willem Roelofs
(1822 - 1897)

Willem Roelofs was a Dutch painter, water-colourist, etcher, lithographer and draughtsman. Roelofs was one of the forerunners of the Dutch Revival art, after the Romantic Classicism of the beginning of the 19th century, which led to the formation of The Hague school. His landscapes, especially the early ones with their dominating cloudy skies, demure bodies of water and populated with cattle, are typical for the School of Barbizon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Roelofs

Wooded Landscape with Stone Bridge over a River
1852
watercolor on paper
37 x 52 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/RP-T-1998-77

Alfred Sisley
(1839 - 1899)
 

Alfred Sisley was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air (i.e., outdoors). He deviated into figure painting only rarely and, unlike Renoir and Pissarro, he found that Impressionism fulfilled his artistic needs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sisley

 

The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne
1872
Oil on canvas
49,5 x 65,4 cm.
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437680

Aureliano de Beruete

(1845 - 1912)

<i>Aureliano de Beruete was a Spanish landscape painter, art critic and social activist. </I>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureliano_de_Beruete

 

El puente de Alcantara, Toledo
1906
Oil on canvas
66,7 x 100 cm
Hispanic Society Of America, New York
http://hispanicsociety.emuseum.com/objects/2129/the-bridge-of-alcantara-toledo

 Luca Carlevarijs
(1663 - 1730)

 

Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris (20 January 1663 – 12 February 1730) was an Italian painter and engraver working mainly in Venice. He pioneered the genre of the cityscapes (vedute) of Venice, a genre that was later widely followed by artists such as Canaletto and Francesco Guardi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Carlevarijs

Capriccio with the Ponte Rotto
C.1714
Oil on canvas
85,8 x 130,5
Brera Pinacoteca Milano
https://pinacotecabrera.org/en/collezione-online/opere/capriccio-con-il-ponte-rotto/

David Roberts
(1796 - 1864)
 

David Roberts RA RBA was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838–1840). These and his large oil paintings of similar subjects made him a prominent Orientalist painter. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Roberts_(painter)

Old Buildings on the Darro, Granada
1834
Oil on panel
111,7 x 122 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80651/old-buildings-on-the-darro-oil-painting-roberts-david-ra/

Camille Pissarro
(1830 - 1903)
 

Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Pissarro

 

Bridge at Caracas

1854

Watercolour over graphite

24 x 30,5 cm

National Gallery of Art, Washington

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.66509.html

 Aelbert Cuyp
(1620 - 1691)
 

Aelbert Jacobszoon Cuyp (Dutch pronunciation: [kœyp]) (or Cuijp; 20 October 1620 – 15 November 1691) was one of the leading Dutch Golden Age painters, producing mainly landscapes. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father, Jacob Gerritszoon Cuyp (1594–1651/52), he is especially known for his large views of Dutch riverside scenes in a golden early morning or late afternoon light. He was born and died in Dordrecht.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aelbert_Cuyp

A Herdsman Driving Cattle over a Bridge
Between 1750 and 1800
Oil on panel
70,5 x 91 cm
National Trust, Waddesdon Manor
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/a-herdsman-driving-cattle-over-a-bridge-229383

Jacob de Wet
(1610 - between 1675 and 1691)
 

Jacob Willemszoon de Wet or Jacob Willemsz. de Wet the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose works were largely influenced by Rembrandt. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Willemszoon_de_Wet

The Holy Family during the Flight to Egypt on a ferry
1625 - 1671
Oil on panel
51 x 66,5 cm
Private collection

 James McIntosh Patrick
(1907 - 1998)

James McIntosh Patrick, OBE RSA was a Scottish painter, celebrated for his finely observed paintings of the Angus landscape and Dundee, Scotland, where he was based for most of his life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McIntosh_Patrick

The Bridge, Den of Fowlis
1957
Oil on canvas
63,3 x 57,7 cm
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-bridge-den-of-fowlis-angus-85611

Hubert Robert
(1733 - 1808)

Hubert Robert was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in Italy and of France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Robert

The Pont du Gard
1787
Oil on canvas
240 x 240 cm
Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010062545

Stretching the theme a bit today because this not in fact a bridge but an aqueduct or watercourse.
It brings back memories from 40 years ago when I went hiking with a friend in the south of France. It looked very much the same then as in this painting only not so many people about…

 Theodore Robinson
(1852 - 1896)
 

Theodore Robinson was an American painter best known for his Impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up Impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude Monet. Several of his works are considered masterpieces of American Impressionism.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Robinson

The Old Bridge

1890

Oil on Canvas

63,5 x 81 cm.

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/robinson-theodore/old-bridge

Jacob Maris
(1837 - 1899)
 

Jacob Hendricus Maris ( was a Dutch painter, who with his brothers Willem and Matthijs belonged to what has come to be known as the Hague School of painters. He was considered to be the most important and influential Dutch landscape painter of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. His first teacher was painter J.A.B. Stroebel who taught him the art of painting from 1849 to 1852. Jacob Maris's most known works are the series of portraits of the royal House of Orange, he worked on these with his brother Matthijs Maris. He is also known for landscapes such as Ship on the Scheveningen beach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Maris

The Bridge
Ca. 1879
Oil on canvas
42 x 73,5 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/SK-A-2988

Everhardus Koster
(1817 - 1892)
 

Everhardus Koster was a Dutch painter who specialized in sea and river scenes. For many years, he served as Director of the various museums that were formerly housed in the Villa Welgelegen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everhardus_Koster

Ruins Over the River Birchel at Zutphen
Between 1840 and 1855
Oil on canvas
35.9 x 61.7 cm
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
https://www.vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/NIRP/id/28172/

 Edvard Munch
(1863 - 1944)
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, The Scream (1893), has become one of Western art's most iconic images.

Munch arrived in Paris during the festivities of the Exposition Universelle (1889) and roomed with two fellow Norwegian artists. His picture Morning (1884) was displayed at the Norwegian pavilion. He spent his mornings at Bonnat's busy studio (which included female models) and afternoons at the exhibition, galleries, and museums (where students were expected to make copies as a way of learning technique and observation). Munch recorded little enthusiasm for Bonnat's drawing lessons—"It tires and bores me—it's numbing"—but enjoyed the master's commentary during museum trips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Munch

The Seine at Saint-Cloud
1890
Oil on wooden panel
19 x 33 cm
Private collection

Vanessa Bell
(1879 - 1961)

Vanessa Bell was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf .
Bell was portrayed by Janet McTeer in the Dora Carrington biopic Carrington (1995), and by Miranda Richardson in the film The Hours (2002).
Bell is the subject of the Susan Sellers novel Vanessa and Virginia (2010) and of the Priya Parmar novel Vanessa and Her Sister (2014). She was portrayed by Phoebe Fox and Eve Best in the BBC mini-series Life in Squares (2015).
Bell was portrayed by Emerald Fennell in the film Vita and Virginia (2018).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_Bell

On the Seine
c. 1921
Oil on canvas
27 x 46 cm
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Emile Claus
(1849 - 1924)

 

Emile Claus was a Belgian painter.  He trained at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts with, amongst others, the landscape painter Jacob Jacobs. During his training, Claus attracted the attention of and found favour with the local upper middle class.
Artistically and financially, Claus soon prospered. The Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts purchased one of his works, and The Picknick (1887), his well-known painting showing a farmer’s family watching the Sunday outing of the urban bourgeoisie on the opposite bank of a small river (the Lys), was bought by the Belgian Royal Family.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Claus

Waterloo Bridge, zon en regen. Maart
1916
Oil on canvas
102 x 127 cm
KMSK (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium)
https://fine-arts-museum.be/nl/de-collectie/emile-claus-waterloo-bridge-zon-en-regen-maart

Claude Monet
(1840 - 1926)

 

Oscar-Claude Monet  was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. During his long career, he was the most consistent and prolific practitioner of impressionism's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air (outdoor) landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant, exhibited in 1874 (the "exhibition of rejects") initiated by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

Waterloo Bridge. Effect of Fog
1903
Oil on canvas
65,3 x 101 cm
Hermitage Museum. St. Petersburg
https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/digital-collection/01.+Paintings/28490

John Constable
(1776 – 1837)

John Constable RA was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for revolutionising the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as "Constable Country" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling".
Constable's most famous paintings include Wivenhoe Park (1816), Dedham Vale (1821) and The Hay Wain (1821). Although his paintings are now among the most popular and valuable in British art, he was never financially successful. He became a member of the establishment after he was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts at the age of 52. His work was embraced in France, where he sold more than in his native England and inspired the Barbizon school.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Constable

Gillingham Bridge, Dorset
1823
Oil on canvas
32,1 x 51,4 cm
TATE
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/constable-gillingham-bridge-dorset-n01244

Carl Larsson
(1853 - 1919)

 

Carl Olof Larsson was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement. His many paintings include oils, watercolors, and frescoes. He is principally known for his watercolors of idyllic family life. He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot (Midwinter Sacrifice), a large painting now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Larsson

The Bridge in Grez / Medieval
1885
Watercolor
54,5 x 76,5 cm
Private collection (Sold by Bukowskis)
https://www.bukowskis.com/auctions/556/59-carl-larsson-bron-i-grez-medeltid?locale=en

Frederick Morgan
(1847 - 1927)

Frederick Morgan ROI was an English painter of portraits, animals, domestic and country scenes. He became known for his idyllic genre scenes of childhood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Morgan_(painter)

Not of the fold
C. 1881
Oil on canvas
111 x 176 cm
Private collection (Italy)

Canaletto
(1697 - 1768)

Giovanni Antonio Canal (commonly known as Canaletto), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Painter of city views or vedute, of Venice, Rome, and London, he also painted imaginary views (referred to as capricci), although the demarcation in his works between the real and the imaginary is never quite clearcut. He was further an important printmaker using the etching technique. In the period from 1746 to 1756 he worked in England where he painted many views of London and other sites including Warwick Castle and Alnwick Castle. He was highly successful in England, thanks to the British merchant and connoisseur Joseph "Consul" Smith, whose large collection of Canaletto's works was sold to King George III in 1762.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaletto

Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames
1747
Oil on canvas
95,9 x 127,6 cm
Yale Centre for British Art
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:4994

Bernardo Bellotto
(1721 - 1780)

Bernardo Bellotto was an Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedute of European cities – Dresden, Vienna, Turin, and Warsaw. He was the student and nephew of the renowned Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto. In Germany and Poland, Bellotto called himself by his uncle's name, Canaletto. This caused some confusion, however Bellotto’s work is more sombre in color than Canaletto's and his depiction of clouds and shadows brings him closer to Dutch painting.
Bellotto's style was characterized by elaborate representation of architectural and natural vistas, and by the specific quality of each place's lighting. It is plausible that Bellotto, and other Venetian masters of vedute, may have used the camera obscura in order to achieve superior precision of urban views.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Bellotto

Dresden From the Right Bank of the Elbe Below the Augustus Bridge
1748
133 x 237 cm
The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden)
https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/135387