This section of the exhibition includes the broad swathe of England above
the Midlands and below Scotland, and from Cumbria to Northumberland -
including Lancashire and Yorkshire.
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Featuring iconic sublime and picturesque views of the region, it begins
with the discovery of nature, and concludes with the emergence (and relative
decline) of the industrial city.
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There will be a particular focus on the Lake District, the centrepiece
of which is Benjamin Robert Haydon's fine portrait of
the poet William Wordsworth on Helvellyn, accompanied by important works
including Turner's Morning on the Coniston Fells.
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James Ward's huge Gordale Scar, a masterpiece of the
Romantic Sublime depicting a gloomy limestone cliff in North Yorkshire,
will be a keynote work for this exhibition.
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But no survey of the North could avoid the great cities that sprang up
across the region as a result mainly of the Industrial Revolution.
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Among those paintings featured are William Wyld's view
of Manchester from Lower Broughton and Stanley Royle's
of Sheffield from Wincobank Wood, a triumphalist view of Sheffield steel-making
in its prime.
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The section will also feature the much-loved art of LS Lowry.
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