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  "path": "/2026/05/28/portraits-of-trees-introduction/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-28T11:30:00.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "General",
    "Life",
    "Painting",
    "Cézanne",
    "Constable",
    "Corot",
    "history of painting",
    "landscape",
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  "textContent": "Humans have lived with trees since our origins, and trees feature in many paintings. This explains the importance of sketching them from life, and shows examples of different species and contrasting artists from Rubens and van Ruisdael to van Gogh and Cézanne.",
  "title": "Portraits of trees: Introduction"
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