Composition of Rocks and Pine Trees
Dr. Thomas Monro was a physician by day but ran a legendary informal art academy in his London home, where young geniuses like J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Girtin would copy master drawings by candlelight. This moody sketch features rugged, shadowed rocks in the foreground and a cluster of spindly pine trees reaching into a misty, overcast sky. The raw, atmospheric energy of the drawing, with its dark, scratchy lines, captures the kind of study that helped shape the future of British landscape painting.
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