A series about the French Impressionists and those who were influenced by them. 5: Northern Lights
' What is this Impressionism they are all talking about? -Well, I fancy it's what you and I have been doing for the past ten years.' WILLIAM MCTAGGART was born near Campbeltown in 1835. Did he discover his own kind of Impressionism on the beaches of Kintyre years before Monet painted his Impression - Sunrise at Le Havre? SIR WILLIAM MACTAGGART recalls his grandfather's achievement and shows how his own work was transformed by the new freedoms that began with the Impressionist revolution. Both are artists of great instinctive talent who have interpreted the moods and poetry of nature in different ways. Narrator ALAN DOBIE
Film cameraman PHILIP BONHAM-CARTER Film editor TERRY CORNELIUS
Written and produced by JOHN READ