Dorset’s French impressionist
Roger Lane reveals how an area of west Dorset became the painterly landscape of Lucien Pissarro
Published in January ’21
WHEN Sir Frederick Treves published his book, Highways and Byways in Dorset, in 1906, he wrote: ‘The county of Dorset is small, but is yet so varied in its configuration as to present an epitome of the scenery of southern England. It is a land of moods and changes that knows no monotony, is indeed so full of hills and dales that there is scarcely a level road within its confines, save by the banks of streams.’ This variety of mood and landscape has been Dorset’s attraction to many writers and artists and indeed continues to be so. William and Dorothy Wordsworth were fascinated by its charms and wrote poetically of the landscape, and J M W Turner was a frequent visitor to capture its light …
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