English Painting

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English Painting


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. [1]

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds

William Turner

William Turner

John Constable

Flatford Mill

John Constable

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References

  1. ↑ cfr:Page 9