Francis James Sarjent

Francis James Sargent made quiet, careful watercolours of London and its edges in the late 1700s, when artists often walked out from the city to sketch fields and distant spires. In View of London from the fields below Hampstead and Landscape with trees, he records sky, light, and foliage with a steady hand, letting the paper show through as part of the scene. Tap View of London from the fields below Hampstead to step into one of those open vantage points just north of the growing city.