Abstract
Artists' selections of particular places as subjects for landscape painting have changed from time to time but it is difficult to assess the strength and specificity of changing locational preferences. Catalogues of the Royal Academy summer exhibitions provide a continuous record of subjects from 1769 to the present. Grouping subjects by countries and counties and analysing changes by ten-year running averages, it has been possible to identify geographical shifts in artistic interest and trends in changing artistic tastes. France, Italy and Scotland have risen to and fallen from favour, whilst changing preferences for mountain, downland, heath or coastal scenes have been reflected in movements to and away from Cumbria, Sussex, Norfolk and Cornwall. It remains to discover how far changes in artists' tastes lead or follow changes in popular preferences for different kinds of landscapes.
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