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Who is also credited as the originator of the British landscape school?

  • Richard Wilson

  • William Turner

  • John Robert Cozens

  • Philip James de Loutherbourg

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Richard Wilson (1714 – 1782) was a Welsh landscape painter and engraver. He is also credited as the originator of the British landscape school. He is best known for his landscapes of the Italian countryside, which he painted after living in Italy from 1750 to 1764.
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