Emily Spicer reviews the exhibition A Dialogue with Nature: Romantic Landscapes from Britain and Germany at The Courtauld Gallery, London, on view through April 27, 2014.

Spicer writes that the "tendency towards introspection was a common theme in Romantic landscape art and, as A Dialogue with Nature illustrates, so too was the direct observation of the natural world… In the hands of the Romantic painters, however, landscape art took on a new depth of meaning… In the pursuit of accurate observations then, both German and British artists found common ground in a shared fascination with the most fleeting forces of the natural world."