Chaucer at the Court versus the Wanderer on a Mountain

Above you'll see fairly well-known replica of a painting by Ford Madox Brown titled "Chaucer at the Court of Edward III" (1868). If you're interested in the painting, you'll find more information about it at the Tate Museum website, where it is on display.

I want to compare the image below to Caspar David Friedrich's Wander Above the Fog (1818), which is on display at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, a major art museum in Hamburg, Germany.

I hope the paintings provide us occassion to think about creativity generally and, in our context, authorship particularly. Spend some time (say 5 minutes) looking at both paintings. How do these images differ in their presentation of creativity, artistry, and authorship? Let's assume these paintings offer metaphors for the creative process. Which metaphor seems more appealing to you as a writer? Why?