Hugo Simberg (Finnish, 1873-1917), Spring Evening, 1897
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Isaac Levitan (born in Lithuania 1860 – died in Moscow,1900), The Apiary, 1885
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Jean-François Millet, The Sheepfold, Moonlight, ca. 1856-1860
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Caspar David Friedrich. Easter Morning, 1835
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Charles F. Blunt, 'Rainbows' from 'Astronomical Phenomena', 1842
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John Constable, Landscape with a Double Rainbow, 1812
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John Constable, London, from Hampstead Heath in a Storm; with Double Rainbow Seen beneath Purple Masses of Cloud, 1831
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, 'A Rainbow, with Cattle', c.1815
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, 'Ehrenbreitstein with a Rainbow', 1840
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Joseph Mallord William Turner, 'Buttermere Lake, with Part of Cromackwater, Cumberland,1798
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The Rainbow, Joseph Mallord William Turner - circa 1835-1840
Odilon Redon, Sunset, n.d.
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Obviously rainbows don't look like this. But why did Turner think a rainbow *should* look like this?
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this is how I have imagined the English countryside which H.G. Wells wrote about in War of the Worlds.



