The Quiet Observation of Landscape Thomas Scott Callowhill lived through a period of significant change, spanning from 1840 to 1934. His work suggests a man who spent much of his time looking closely at the way light settles over a field or how water moves around a stone. There is a stillness in his approach, a preference for the unadorned reality of the countryside. He did not seek to dramatize the terrain but rather to record the spe…