About this objectSteer enjoyed travelling through the English countryside to paint landscapes. By this point in his career, he was repeatedly called ‘the’ successor of John Constable (1776-1837) and received widespread critical and public support.
Many of his painting trips were to the sites of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) paintings, such as Bridgnorth. The works of Turner had a long-lasting impact on Steer. He travelled with a copy of Turner’s Liber Studiorum in his pocket. As a child, he had been fascinated by a Turner watercolour that hung in his bedroom.
In his later years, Steer's increasing interest in watercolours influenced his oil technique.
