Landscape with figures and cattle

De Loutherbourg's Landscape with Figures and Cattle reflects his contribution to British landscape painting alongside his celebrated storm and disaster subjects. His landscapes showed the influence of both the Flemish tradition — the warm pastoral light of Rubens and the Dutch Golden Age — and the new English landscape interest in atmospheric effects and local natural character. De Loutherbourg became a Royal Academician in 1781 and his landscape subjects were exhibited alongside his more sensational storm and battle paintings, demonstrating the full range of his contribution to British painting's development in the period between Gainsborough and Constable.

De Loutherbourg's oil on canvas combines naturalistic landscape observation with dramatic lighting effects, rendering the cattle and figures with warm, rich color and the theatrical flair characteristic of his approach.