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Such depiction of the effects of light and atmosphere was very popular with the major patrons of the day.<br><br><b>People</b><br>Augustus Wall Callcott (1779-1844) was trained at the Schools of the Royal Academy and was principally a landscape painter whose preference was for coastal and marine scenes. This view was executed late in Callcott's career. It reveals a similarity between his work and that of the 17th-century Dutch lanscape painters that was being eagerly collected in Britain.<br><br><b>Subjects Depicted</b><br>The painting, which depicts a herd of cattle with the Dutch town of Dort or Dordrecht in the distance, is typical of thousands of landscapes in the Dutch style. The imagery of a townscape in the background, with its tall spires, and the peaceable cattle in the foreground, was a useful formula for the imitation of old master painting by British Victorian artists.","physicalDescription":"Oil painting depicting cows with Dordrecht in the background. 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