Passage 2:
The Pre-Raphaelites wanted to paint naturally and study every detail carefully, as the early Netherlands painters had done, but they mostly turned away from the life around them. If they painted landscape, for instance, they were apt to go to distant places where no railways or factories were to be seen. Holman Hunt, for example, went to the Holy Land in order to paint scenes from the Bible with perfect accuracy. In France the more revolutionary painters did the opposite. Instead of painting in great detail, they painted broadly, with great sweeps of the brush, and increasingly, they painted the life of France in their day. Gustavo Courbet, for instance, painted landscape, still-life, and every kind of scene from the life both of well-to-do farmers and of peasants. Jean Francois Millet painted mostly peasants, often working in the fields. A school of landscape painters settled at Barbizon, not far from Paris, and painted scenes in the forest around them. They were known as the Barbizon painters.

According to the passage, the early Netherlands painters ...................... .