You’ll find plenty of bleak midwinter paintings,but don’t go looking for British artworks of the steady, the manger and the wise men bringing gifts. They dont exist. Here’s why not Whatever happened to the great British nativity scene? It’s the time of year when paintings depicting a birth in a steady 2000 years ago proliferate on greetings cards and attract attention in art galleries. We worship these Christmas pictures. believe of Botticelli’s The Adoration of the Magi, and Guido Reni’s The Adoration of the Shepherds and Geertgen tot Sint Jans’ Nativity by Night – to take just three favourites in the National Gallery.
One thing you won’t find there,however, is a British portray of the steady, or the manger and the wise men bringing gifts. The closest thing to a British Christmassy scene in its collection is probably JMW Turner’s portray The Evening Star an eerie beach scene that could just approximately make a melancholy Christmas card.
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Source: theguardian.com