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[[Image:Foster Burnham Beeches.jpg|thumb|Watercolor: Burnham Beeches ''by Miles Birket Foster (1825-1899)'']]

[[Image:Foster Burnham Beeches.jpg|thumb|Watercolor: Burnham Beeches ''by Miles Birket Foster (1825-1899)'']]

== Nicholas Hilliard ==

 

 

 

=== Nicholas Hilliard ===

The Elizabethan Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619), was the most celebrated of English miniaturists. His reputation extended to [[France]]. Hilliard was a follower of Hans Holbein. He was also the author of a treatise on miniature painting, "The Art of Limning".  

The Elizabethan Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619), was the most celebrated of English miniaturists. His reputation extended to [[France]]. Hilliard was a follower of Hans Holbein. He was also the author of a treatise on miniature painting, "The Art of Limning".  

Hilliard was the author of the miniatures of Elizabeth I, 1572, Sir [[Walter Raleigh]], 1585, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, and other members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England.   

Hilliard was the author of the miniatures of Elizabeth I, 1572, Sir [[Walter Raleigh]], 1585, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, and other members of the courts of Elizabeth I and James I of England.   

=== William Hogarth ===

== William Hogarth ==

[[Image:Hogarth Graham Children.jpg|thumb|Graham Children.]]

[[Image:Hogarth Graham Children.jpg|thumb|Graham Children.]]

[[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.

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== Sir Joshua Reynolds ==

=== Sir Joshua Reynolds ===

[[Image:Reynolds Nelly O'Brien.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Nelly O'Brien]]

[[Image:Reynolds Nelly O'Brien.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Nelly O'Brien]]

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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>

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== 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]]. 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]]. In 1799, he was elected to the Royal Academy where he exhibited watercolors from 1790 to 1820.   

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== John Constable ==

=== John Constable ===

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

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

[[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>

[[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>