When one thinks of landscape watercolors, it is hard not picture pastoral scenes of England’s green and pleasant land, to quote William Blake. But in the history of art, British landscape ...

Paul Sandby (1725-1809) is commonly called “the father of British watercolor.” While other artists favored foreign ... In such paintings as Landscape, with Dragoons Galloping Along the Road ...

Nearby, a glass case containing Winsor & Newton watercolor boxes and sketchbooks shows the art supplier's powdered ... known as the father of British landscapes. An adjoining section titled ...