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The best known British artists in the Tate Gallery

The Gallery was opened on the 21st of July 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art, but became commonly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry Tate. The Tate’s collection now encompasses British art from the 16th century to the present as well as international modern art.

In addition to displaying its own permanent collections, the Tate mounts important exhibitions of British and modern art from collections loaned by other museums and galleries. In 2000 the Tate opened a new museum, Tate Modern, in a remodeled power plant in London to display its collection of international modern art.

The collection of historic British art features important works by William Hogarth, William Blake, and John Constable. Highlights of the international collection include works by Spanish artists Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali, French artists Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp, and American artists Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko The Tate’s collection also includes a bequest by 19th-century English artist J. M. W. Turner of his paintings and watercolors.

J.M.W. Turner , English Romantic landscape painter whose expressionistic studies of light, colour, and atmosphere were unmatched in their range and sublimity.

Snow Storm — Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth (oil on canvas by J.M.W. Turner, 1842) Crossing through creek (oil on canvas by J.M.W. Turner, 1815)

Sir Joshua Reynolds, portrait painter and aesthetician who dominated English artistic life in the middle and late 18th century. With the founding of the Royal Academy in 1768, Reynolds was elected its first president and knighted by King George III.

Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney, The Archers, 1769. In September 2005, the Tate Gallery acquired the painting for over UK£2.5 million (US$4.4 million).

William Hogarth, The first great English – born artist attracted admiration abroad. He was best known for his moral and satirical engravings and paintings. He made his name as an artist painting “conversation pieces”.

“The Harlot’s Progress” (set of six)