Landscape was borrowed from Dutch 'landschap' (a painting of natural scenery), introduced through the influence of Dutch Golden Age painters.
All the visible features of an area of countryside or land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal; a picture representing such a view. As a verb, to improve the appearance of an area of land.
From Dutch 'landschap' (region, tract of land, painting of scenery), from 'land' (land) + '-schap' (a condition, equivalent to English '-ship'). The word was borrowed into English as an art term — a landscape was originally a painting of natural scenery, introduced by Dutch painters. The meaning expanded from the painting to the scenery itself. Dutch painters of the 17th-century Golden Age