Difference between revisions of "English Painting"
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== William Hogarth == | == William Hogarth == | ||
| − | William 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 cfr:Page 9]</ref> | + | [[William 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 cfr:Page 9]</ref> |
== Sir Joshua Reynolds == | == Sir Joshua Reynolds == | ||
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English Painting has a long and rich history. It is believed that English painting had the influenced of Celts. However some scholars affirm that real English painting started in the 18th century; this is because the most important painters who worked before in England were foreigners (Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, Anthony van Dyck, etc.), from mainland Europe.
William Hogarth
William 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. [1]
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Thomas Gainsborough
William Turner
John Constable
| “ | 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.[2] | ” |
See also
External links
- Country Index:UK Olga's Gallery.
- British Biography Britain Express.
- Hogarth, Constable and Turner By SIR KENNETH CLARK.
- English Painting
- INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH PAINTING