In pictures: Picture of Britain

1 of 10 Tate Britain's A Picture of Britain exhibition explores how the British landscape has inspired artists for 300 years. Works on display include The Wilds of Assynt by the Scottish landscape artist Sir David Young Cameron.

2 of 10 Another Scottish artist featured is Gourlay Steell, whose 1885 painting A Highland Parting typifies the "Romantic Highlandism" that is often used to promote Scotland to tourists.

3 of 10 Depictions of rural Britain, like JMW Turner's 1798 study of Norham Castle in Northumberland at sunrise, have not only inspired contemporary artists but have also influenced how the British countryside is perceived around the world.

4 of 10 Constable's art in particular has come to epitomise English rural scenery. In this study, painted in about 1810, he shows the view looking from the forecourt of Flatford Mill across a side stream of the river Stour.

5 of 10 Cornard Wood - presented as part of the Flatlands section devoted to East Anglia - is Thomas Gainsborough's most important early landscape. The painting has been loaned to the exhibition by the National Gallery.

6 of 10 The Cornfield by official war artist John Nash is set in Chalfont Common in Buckinghamshire. This bucolic scene, completed in 1918, was his first painting that didn't depict war; note the long shadows cast by the evening sun across the field.

7 of 10 The 1955 painting Industrial Landscape typifies the panoramic cityscapes LS Lowry painted throughout his career. Although it is an imaginary composition, some elements - the Stockport Viaduct, for example - are recognisable as real places.

8 of 10 Since the 18th century, artists have travelled to the West Country and Wales to find a world of myths and megaliths. This picture by Richard Wilson shows the lake of Llyn-y-Cau, on the mountain of Cader Idris in North Wales.

9 of 10 Paul Nash's Equivalents for the Megaliths, inspired by the stones at Avebury on the Wiltshire Downs, takes a more abstract view of the West of England's standing stones.

10 of 10 William Dyce's painting of Pegwell Bay in Kent is part of the Home Front section devoted to the southern part of England. A Picture of Britain runs at Tate Britain until 4 September.