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'''English Painting''' has a long and rich history. ''Many scholars say there was no [[English]] school of [[painting]] before the 18th century, as the most important painters who worked in England came from abroad and English art lovers only liked paintings of foreign old masters. Others say English painting was influenced by native [[Celts]] whose work was repressed by the Church's invasion of the Island. '' <ref>[http://www.indopedia.org/English_school_of_painting.html English school of painting]</ref>  

'''English Painting''' has a long and rich history. Many scholars say there was no [[English]] school of [[painting]] before the 18th century, as the most important painters who worked in England came from abroad and English art lovers only liked paintings of foreign old masters. Others say English painting was influenced by native [[Celts]] whose work was repressed by the Church's invasion of the Island. <ref>[http://www.indopedia.org/English_school_of_painting.html English school of painting]</ref>  

== Thomas Gainsborough ==

== Thomas Gainsborough ==

[[Thomas Gainsborough]] ''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>

[[Thomas Gainsborough]] 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 ==

== 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>

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