 Also, the painters and sketchers who did come were, with the exception of J M W Turner and John Constable, not in the highest ranks of the craft.However, all did contribute to a more positive acceptance of landscape painting as a bone fide alternative to the genres of history painting and portraiture that had been the fashion previously.Print-makers had visited the Lakes since the 1750s, one of the earliest being William Bellers ("Six select views in the North of England", 1752) that "contained the first published images of Derwentwater, Ullswater and Windermere."