Corot to Monet

On Wednesday 8 July The National Gallery in London opens Corot to Monet, an exhibition which charts the development of French open-air landscape painting in the 19th Century up to the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 (title link). The influence of the Barbizon School of "plein air" painters is featured. This impressionistic painting is by English artist Richard Parkes Bonington: La Ferté: estuaire dans le Nord de la France (c.1825). The exhibition looks interesting, and you can't quibble about the price of admission: free.