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To the British, that country would have seemed one of the most remote in Europe, and Danby emphasises the grimmest aspects of the unfamiliar landscape before him.  He had written home to a friend: 'there are very beautiful scenes and extremely picturesque...God knows the country is wild enough'.","briefDescription":"Oil painting entitled 'Liensfiord Lake, Norway' by Francis Danby.  British School, 1841.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Parkinson, R., <u>Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860</u>, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 61-62"},{"reference":{"text":"Evans, Mark et al. <i>Vikutoria & Arubāto Bijutsukan-zō : eikoku romanshugi kaigaten = The Romantic tradition in British painting, 1800-1950 : masterpieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum</i>. 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