Bristol School

Two people on a cliff top look along the length of a river with wide muddy banks which snakes through a gorge towards the distant city of Bristol. A line of small boats sail along the river.
Francis Danby, The Avon Gorge, Looking toward Clifton, watercolour, c. 1820.

The Bristol School (or Bristol School of Artists) is a term applied retrospectively to describe the informal association and works of a group of artists working in Bristol, England, in the early 19th century.[1] It was mainly active in the 1820s, although the origins and influences of the school have been traced over the wider period 1810–40.[2] During the period of his participation in the activities of the Bristol School, Francis Danby developed the atmospheric, poetical style of landscape painting which then initiated his period of great success in London in the 1820s.[1][3]

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