I have started by looking at Claude Lorrain (1604-1682). He was a landscape artist at a time when landscape was not seen to be a subject in its own right, and also there was no market for paintings whose subjects were merely landscapes.
Some of his landscape paintings have small scale details in them, such as figures. These seem only to serve as giving the painting a sense of scale and don't seem as important as the grand landscapes that surround them.
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Pastoral landscape
Another artist I looked at is Albrecht Durer (1471-1528).
These are two of his very different depictions of landscapes.

Castle Court (Innsbruck)

Pond In The Woods
These are two impressionist paintings by Camille Pissarro.

Lordship Lane Station

Jallais Hill at Pontoise (1867)
This is an industrial landscape by LS Lowry. A riverbank (1947)

And, this is something completely different. A painting by Australian artist Fred Williams (1927-1982)

Landscape with Goose 1974
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