English painters Talking about the British painters

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English painters

Talking about the British painters' contribution to the world of cultural heritage, we usually recall such artists as Hogarth, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Constable, Turner. These are the painters of truly international standing. John Constable and William Turner were the greatest representatives of the Golden age of English landscape.

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was a major English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, painter social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Much of his work poked fun at contemporary politics and customs; illustrations in such style are often referred as "Hogarthian".

“The South Sea Scheme” 1721 “A Just View of the British Stage” 1724

“The Marriage Settlement” 1743 -1745 “ The Lady’s Death”

“Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram” 1740 “Beer Street and Gin Lane” 1751

“March of the Guards of Frinchley” 1750

Farewell great Painter of Mankind Who reache’d the noblest point of Art Whose pictur’d Morals charm the Mind And throuh the Eye correct the Heart. William and Jane Hogarth’s tomb If Genius fire thee, Reader stay, If Nature touch thee, drop a Tear. If niether move thee, Turn away. For Hogarth’s honour’d dust lies

Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an influential 18 th century English painter, specialising in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealisation of the imperfect. He usually painted his characters in heroic style and showed them as the best people of the nation. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy.

Mrs Abington 1771 Sir Joshua Reynolds “ Lady Elizabeth Delme and Her Children” 1770 -1780

“David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy” 1760 -1761

“Lord Keppel” 1779 “Colonel Acland Lord Sydney, The Archers” 1769

Thomas Gainsborough (born 14 May 1727 – died 2 August 1788) was one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of 18 th century of Britain. His portraits are painted in clear t ones. His works contain much poetry and music.

“ Lady in Blue” 1770 “The Blue Boy” 1770

“Wooded Landscape with a Waggon in the Shade” 1760 s

Joseph Mallord William Turner He was born on 23 d April in 1775 in London. His father was the owner of a small barber's shop, mother died insane. He painted waves and storms, clouds and mists with a great skills. Victorian England which found it more important that a man be a gentleman in the past place and only in the second a genius,

J. M. W. Turner “ Snowstorm: Steamboat off a Harbour Mouth”

J. M. W. Turner “ Fighting Temeraire” 1839

“Dido Building Carthage”

John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country. Although his paintings are now among the most popular and valuable in British art, he was never financially successful and did not become a member of the establishment until. He was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of 52. He sold more paintings in France than in his native England.

John Constable “ The Haywain “ 1821 “Dedham Vale” 1802

“View of Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop’s Grounds” circa 1822

“Parham’s Mill” “Stonehendge” 1836

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