Glacier of Rosenlaui - 1856 by John Brett (1831-1902) in Tate Gallery John Brett was greatly impressed by the writings of John Ruskin on art and geology, and by the works of the Pre-Raphaelites. Meeting J. W. Inchbold, another outdoor realist painter, added to Brett's determination to paint 'detail in nature'. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856, and the following year showed The Glacier of Rosenlaui, an incredibly detailed landscape study illustrating how the shape of the land could be governed by ice action, and showing three blatantly ice-deposited rocks in the foreground. This picture established Brett's reputation, ARA in 1881. ?006 TopFoto