The Quiet Precision of John Steeple To look at a John Steeple landscape is to confront the specific, unadorned reality of the British countryside during the mid-nineteenth century. He was a painter of the landscape and coastal scenes, a man who focused his technical attention on the textures of the natural world. His work does not rely on grandiosity; instead, it finds its strength in the controlled application of watercolour. He captu…