nature-painting

Much of his description of life beyond the social pale would be repulsive if it were not for this interpretative nature-painting.

Maxim Gorki Hans Ostwald

He had the orthodox virtues of the orthodox poet -- rime and rhythm, cunning in words, skill in nature-painting, imagination.

The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century William Lyon Phelps 1904

Which or boon Nature gave, or nature-painting Art. LVIII.

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

But it is by fanatics, by men of one great thought, that great works are done; and it is good for the time that a man arose in it of fearless honesty enough to write Peter Bell and the Idiot Boy, to shake all the old methods of nature-painting to their roots, and set every man seriously to ask himself what he meant, or whether he meant anything real, reverent, or honest, when he talked about "poetic diction," or

Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847

a deep, dark background like twilight on a bank or moonlight in a dell -- and lo, we have the marvellous bit of nature-painting called

The Tapestry Book Helen Churchill Hungerford Candee 1905