What is your favorite landscape painting?

Excellent choice OP. I also love Van Ruisdael and his dramatic skies.

Expulsion from the Garden of Eden was painted in 1828 by Thomas Cole.

Beautiful r3

A top candidate would have to be William Dyce's, "Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th, 1858" for its luminosity and the clever way it represents an important shift in history and culture, the title referring to the precise time of a comet but also a great change. Darwin's major work was published in 1859 (the painting was completed and first exhibited in 1860), and the way of viewing the world changed stemming from that and other forces at work at the same time.

And it's a glorious painting in the flesh, much better than it photographs.

I like the western fantasy landscapes, especially Albert Bierstadt.

Constable Constable Constable. No one else compares.

Beautiful r7

Laura Knight

A recent discovery.

I always make a point to visit this one in the National Gallery, London.

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg's, "View of the Forum in Rome," 1814.

Nice overview of the genre and some of the greatest masterpieces.

Magnificent:

Many by Cezanne. Maybe this one.

Or perhaps Ice Floes by Monet

Or maybe Vincent

I despise manscaping!

I've been studying the 19th c. plein air Russian painters for a couple years, and love their color, sense of distances, respect for the countryside and its ways of life, and commitment to the "truth" of the moment. I couldn't name a favorite among the many wonderful Levitans, Yaroshenkos. Shishkins, Kuindzhis. Arkhipovs and Bogdanov-Belskys, but here's one from Shishkin. For me it's the best evocation of how a certain kind of winter day is after a night's snow.

Thank you, r18! I love Shishkin already.

I saw a painting by Peter Howson for sale on an online auction a few years ago. It was a seascape, a religious theme, but more humanist to me, as I am not religious at all. It was entitled something like Ship on the Sea of Galilee. I can’t find an image of it, but I deeply regret not trying to buy it. The image has stuck in my head, even though I can’t find it on Google. It would have been a hugely extravagant purchase for me, but it’s really the only thing I have ever wanted to own so badly.

Anyway, apart from that, I love this Van Gogh. In fact, I love all his landscapes. His paintings seem to be alive, always in flux, and that seems perfect for landscape painting, I think.