Sir George Clausen
Brown Eyes
(1891)
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Henry Herbert La Thangue
The Man with the Scythe
(exhibited 1896)
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The tendency to sentimentalism of the rural naturalist artists distinguishes their work from the more gritty realist work of the nineteenth century, as produced by Gustave Courbet and his followers.
In Britain, rural naturalism is exemplified by the Newlyn School painting and the work of artists such as George Clausen, Henry Herbert La Thangue and Edward Stott.