How many landscapes largely set the course for the graphic treatment of landscape until the end of the 19th century ?
The popularity of landscapes in the Netherlands was in part a reflection of the virtual disappearance of religious painting in a Calvinist society , and the decline of religious painting in the 18th and 19th centuries all over Europe combined with Romanticism to give landscapes a much greater and more prestigious place in 19th - century art than they had assumed before .