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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.

{{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>Sir Kenneth Clark: [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58655295 "Hogarth, Constable and Turner"] - appeared in "Masterpieces of English Painting" by Hans Huth (page 9)</ref>}}

{{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>Sir Kenneth Clark: [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=58655295 "Hogarth, Constable and Turner"] - appeared in "Masterpieces of English Painting" by Hans Huth (page 9)</ref>}}

== Sir Joshua Reynolds ==

== Sir Joshua Reynolds ==

== John Constable ==

== John Constable ==

[[Image:Constable Flatford Mill.JPG|thumb|Flatford Mill]]

[[Image:Constable Flatford Mill.JPG|thumb|Flatford Mill]]

{{cquote|[[John Constable]] is today recognised as the major English landscape painter of the 19th century, matched only by his contemporary, J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). But he was not particularly successful during his lifetime.<ref>[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/fleischmann/d_archsuse05/299_ept_gesamt.htm#gainsb John Constable: The Man and His Work]</ref>}}

{{cquote|[[John Constable]] ''is today recognised as the major English landscape painter of the 19th century, matched only by his contemporary, J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). But he was not particularly successful during his lifetime.'' <ref>[http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/personen/fleischmann/d_archsuse05/299_ept_gesamt.htm#gainsb John Constable: The Man and His Work]</ref>}}

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