The end of the eighteenth century saw the beginning of a return to nature in art as well as in poetry.

Some artists in the eastern counties, older than Turner, were already spending their lives in the not too lucrative painting of landscape.

These men took for their masters the seventeenth-century painters of Holland.

Old Crome, so called to distinguish him from his son, founded his art upon that of Hobbema, and came so close to him in his early years that it is difficult to distinguish their pictures.

In the works of this 'Norwich School' the wide horizons of the Dutch artists often occur.