London 1800

Wilhelm Trübner (1851 - 1917) was born in Heidelberg, the son of a goldsmith. Trübner was encouraged to study painting by Anselm Feuerbach, a painter of historical scenes. During the 1870’s Trübner travelled extensively in Europe, to Italy, the Low Countries and to Paris where he saw the works of Manet and the Impressionists. [MacConnal-Mason Gallery, London - Oil on canvas, 64 x 47.5 cm]

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London Street in Victorian Era

English school, dominant school of painting in England throughout the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th. Its establishment marked the rise of a national tradition that began with the emergence of native artists whose works were no longer provincial but rivaled