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[[William Hogarth]] (1697 – 1764) was one of the greatest innovators in English art.
 
[[William Hogarth]] (1697 – 1764) was one of the greatest innovators in English art.
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{{cquote| Hogarth was a professional rebel. He found English art sycophantic, and determined to make it independent. Instead of working for a few rich patrons, he evolved the idea of making his living out of popular engravings of his pictures. He believed that the lack of a native school of painting was largely due to the fashions imposed on a credulous public by connoisseurs and critics and he waged continual war on taste and the Old Masters.<ref>Hans Huth, Masterpieces of English Painting, [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58655295 Page 9]</ref>}}
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{{cquote| Hogarth was a professional rebel. He found English art sycophantic, and determined to make it independent. Instead of working for a few rich patrons, he evolved the idea of making his living out of popular engravings of his pictures. He believed that the lack of a native school of painting was largely due to the fashions imposed on a credulous public by connoisseurs and critics and he waged continual war on taste and the Old Masters.<ref> [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58655295 Page 9, Hogarth, Constable and Turner By SIR KENNETH CLARK] Hans Huth, Masterpieces of English Painting. </ref>}}
    
== Sir Joshua Reynolds ==
 
== Sir Joshua Reynolds ==
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