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== William Hogarth ==

== William Hogarth ==

 

[[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>}}

''He 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 ==