Rare display of British landscape works in China

Landscape is an important subject in traditional Chinese art as well.

"It will be interesting to make comparisons between Chinese and English landscape art, such as the different perspectives and techniques," Yang says.

"To some extent all landscapes are landscapes of the mind, because the artist changes the details," says Anne Lyles, curator of 18th to 19th century British art at Tate Britain, explaining the title of the exhibition.

Landscape art in China is the projection of the mind and spirit and the relationships between people and nature in terms of "feeding the soul", she says, while in British art it is not quite the case.

"However in early Romantic art, with Constable and Turner, there is very much more a projection of the emotional and personal ideas of the individual onto the picture, although it is not done in a very literal way, as it doesn't illustrate a particular text," she adds.