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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.  
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'''English Painting''' has a long and rich history. It is believed that [[English]] painting had been 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 ==

Revision as of 12:56, May 12, 2008

English Painting has a long and rich history. It is believed that English painting had been 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 (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.[1]

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Sir Joshua Reynolds

Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough

William Turner

William Turner

John Constable

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.[2]

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References

  1. cfr:Page 9
  2. John Constable: The Man and His Work