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English Painting has a long and rich history. It is believed that English painting had been influenced by the 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 (Hans Holbein the Younger, Anthony van Dyck, etc.), from mainland Europe, and painting was essentially an aristocratic matter (Works from the masters of Italian Renaissance were in the collections of the Earl of Arundel and the Duke of Buckingham). In late XIX century, Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, a classical-subject painter, the most successful of the Victorian era, influenced English painting (in some list he appears as English painter). [1]
William Hogarth
William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) was one of the greatest innovators in English art.
| “ | 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. [2] | ” |
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. [3] | ” |
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
Bibliography
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Englishness of English Art, London: Architectural Press, 1956.
References
- ↑ Short Biographies of Leading Victorian Painters
- ↑ Sir Kenneth Clark: "Hogarth, Constable and Turner" - appeared in "Masterpieces of English Painting" by Hans Huth (page 9)
- ↑ John Constable: The Man and His Work