CBSE Class 8 Answered

The picturesque style of painting depicted India as a quaint land to be explored by travelling British artists; its landscape was rugged and wild, seemingly untamed by human hands. Painter Thomas Daniell and his nephew William Daniell were the most famous artists of this school of painting. They came to India in 1785 and stayed for seven years, journeying from Calcutta to northern and southern India and producing some of the best specimens of picturesque landscape paintings of the Indian terrain.