In the 1620s, a generation of Dutch landscape artists began to work in a naturalistic mode very different from that of the earlier generation of Flemish Mannerist landscape artists, a number of whom had recently emigrated to the Northern Netherlands. The change from fantastic landscape to representations of Dutch scenes reflected political and economic changes as the Northern Netherlands established independence from Spanish domination. This stylistic change is reflected in changes in the painting materials and practices of the realist painters. In the 1620s, Dutch painters of naturalistic landscape adapted the efficient working practices of the Flemish landscape painters. They replaced the refined handling of paint and bright colors of the Mannerist painters with limited tonalities and an abbreviated handling of paint to create convincing views of the Dutch landscape.
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