The destruction of this artist's house and the four sketches he made of Virgil's decaying tomb inspired his painting Pope's Villa at Twickenham. In 1798, this artist made what many think to be his first mythological scene, a depiction of Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl at Lake Avernus. Another of his paintings shows the Cumaean (kew-MAY-un) Sibyl with the title The Golden Bough. One of this artist's paintings was first displayed with an excerpt from a Thomas Campbell poem which said "The flag which
The destruction of this artist's house and the four sketches he made of Virgil's decaying tomb inspired his painting Pope's Villa at Twickenham. In 1798, this artist made what many think to be his first mythological scene, a depiction of Aeneas and the Cumaean Sibyl at Lake Avernus. Another of his paintings shows the Cumaean (kew-MAY-un) Sibyl with the title The Golden Bough. One of this artist's paintings was first displayed with an excerpt from a Thomas Campbell poem which said "The flag which braved the (*) battle and breeze / no longer owns her." That painting by this artist shows a square-rigger and the title object being moved by a vessel with a large smoke stack. This artist, who showed a vessel being tugged to her last berth to be broken up in The Fighting Temeraire, depicted the Maidenhead Bridge in one of his landscapes. For 10 points, name this English artist who showed the "Great Western Railway" in his Rain, Steam, and Speed.
The destruction of this artist's house and the four sketches he made of Virgil's decaying tomb inspired his painting Pope's Villa at Twickenham.