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Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews, c. 1748–1750 The Angel of the North near Gateshead by Antony Gormley, 1998. The art of the United Kingdom refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with the country since the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 and encompasses English art, Scottish art, Welsh art and Irish art, and forms part of Western art history.
Edward Armitage (1817–1896) – English Victorian era painter especially of historical, classical and biblical subjects; Richard Dadd (1817–1886) – English painter especially of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes; Walter Hood Fitch (1817–1892) – Scottish botanist and botanical artist
Ward's painting of Charlotte Corday being led to execution beat Millais's Ophelia for a prize at Liverpool, leading to much debate at the time. His historical paintings led to Ward's commission to paint eight scenes in the corridor leading into the House of Commons , despite the fact that he had won nothing at the original 1843 competition. [ 1 ]
Substantive definitions of English art have been attempted by, among others, art scholar Nikolaus Pevsner (in his 1956 book The Englishness of English Art), [10] art historian Roy Strong (in his 2000 book The Spirit of Britain: A narrative history of the arts) [11] and critic Peter Ackroyd (in his 2002 book Albion). [12]
British painting had been strongly influenced by Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, who believed that the purpose of art was "to conceive and represent their subjects in a poetical manner, not confined to mere matter of fact", and that artists should aspire to emulate the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael in making their subjects appear as close ...
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This category is for categories of paintings by subject matter ... Paintings about art (3 C, 1 P) Paintings of art galleries (16 P) C. Paintings set in cabarets (8 P)
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