But there is a brighter colour, a fresher green, recalling England rather than Holland.

Turner never felt the influence of the Dutch painters so strongly as these artists did.

Like Gainsborough, and many another artist before him and since, Turner was to be dominated by the necessity of making a living.

At the end of the century a demand arose for 'Topographical Collections,' of views of places, selected and arranged according to their neighbourhood.

These were not necessarily fine works of art, but they were required to be faithful records of places.
Topographical paintings, drawings, and prints took the place now filled by the photograph and the postcard.