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=== Thomas Gainsborough ===

=== Thomas Gainsborough ===

[[Image:Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish pd.jpg|thumb|Lady Georgiana Cavendish, 1787.]]

[[Image:Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish pd.jpg|thumb|Lady Georgiana Cavendish, 1787.]]

[[Thomas Gainsborough]] (Sudbury, Suffolk, 1727 – London, 1788) was a landscape and portrait painter, considered one of the great English masters. In the aristocratic spa town of Bath and later in London, he became well-known for [[portraits]] like ''Mrs. Philip Thicknesse (1760), Mary, Countess Howe (about 1763-4), The Blue Boy (exhibited R.A. 1770), and the landscape The Harvest Wagon (exhibited S.A. 1767). In 1768 he became one of the foundation members of the Royal Academy, at which he exhibited annually until 1784''.<ref>[http://www.abcgallery.com/G/gainsborough/gainsboroughbio.html Biography of Thomas Gainsborough]</ref>

[[Thomas Gainsborough]] (Sudbury, Suffolk, 1727 – London, 1788) was a landscape and portrait painter, considered one of the great English masters. In the aristocratic spa town of Bath and later in London, he became well known for [[portraits]] like ''Mrs. Philip Thicknesse (1760), Mary, Countess Howe (about 1763-4), The Blue Boy (exhibited R.A. 1770), and the landscape The Harvest Wagon (exhibited S.A. 1767). In 1768 he became one of the foundation members of the Royal Academy, at which he exhibited annually until 1784''.<ref>[http://www.abcgallery.com/G/gainsborough/gainsboroughbio.html Biography of Thomas Gainsborough]</ref>

In 1780, Gainsborough painted the King George III and Queen Charlotte, becoming the Royal Family's favorite painter. ''Before his death in 1788, he turned from portraiture to pictorial compositions, producing in all some 200 landscapes in addition to his prolific output of about 800 portraits of the English aristocracy.'' <ref>[http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/gainsborough.htm Thomas Gainsborough]</ref> Gainsborough is the master of the English [[Rococo]].

In 1780, Gainsborough painted the King George III and Queen Charlotte, becoming the Royal Family's favorite painter. ''Before his death in 1788, he turned from portraiture to pictorial compositions, producing in all some 200 landscapes in addition to his prolific output of about 800 portraits of the English aristocracy.'' <ref>[http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/gainsborough.htm Thomas Gainsborough]</ref> Gainsborough is the master of the English [[Rococo]].

=== William Turner ===

=== William Turner ===

[[Image:Turner Dido Carthage.jpg|thumb|Dido building Carthage, 1815.]]

[[Image:Turner Dido Carthage.jpg|thumb|Dido building Carthage, 1815.]]

[[William Turner|Joseph Mallord William Turner]] (Covent Garden 1775 - [[London]] 1851) was a [[British]] [[Romanticism|Romantic]] [[painter]]. Important artistic influences upon Turner during the 1790's were [[Thomas Gainsborough]], Michael Angelo Rooker, [[Philippe De Loutherbourg|Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg]], Henry Fuseli and Richard Wilson. [http://www.turnersociety.org.uk/Turner_biography.pdf] In 1799, he was elected to the Royal Academy where he exhibited watercolors from 1790 to 1820.   

[[William Turner|Joseph Mallord William Turner]] (Covent Garden 1775 - [[London]] 1851) was a [[British]] [[Romanticism|Romantic]] [[painter]]. Important artistic influences upon Turner during the 1790s were [[Thomas Gainsborough]], Michael Angelo Rooker, [[Philippe De Loutherbourg|Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg]], Henry Fuseli and Richard Wilson. [http://www.turnersociety.org.uk/Turner_biography.pdf] In 1799, he was elected to the Royal Academy where he exhibited watercolors from 1790 to 1820.   

''In satisfying the fashion for ruins, mountains and waterfalls, he was pleasing and nourishing himself. Ruined abbeys awoke his feelings of history and so charged his mind with the fallacies of hope that this became the title of a chaotic, illiterate epic from which, throughout his life, he quoted mottoes for his pictures.'' (cf: Clark, [[Ibidem]])

''In satisfying the fashion for ruins, mountains and waterfalls, he was pleasing and nourishing himself. Ruined abbeys awoke his feelings of history and so charged his mind with the fallacies of hope that this became the title of a chaotic, illiterate epic from which, throughout his life, he quoted mottoes for his pictures.'' (cf: Clark, [[Ibidem]])