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The oldest surviving British art includes Stonehenge from around 2600 BC, and tin and gold works of art produced by the Beaker people from around 2150 BC. The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular "Insular Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs ...
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The sketch is undated. It is in the Yale Centre for British Art at the Yale Art Gallery (Mary Gertrude Abbey Foundation, Prints and Graphics Collection, inventory number — B1979.12.819, [50] according to other sources — 1961.9.37 [51]). [50] [21] In this sketch, the image already forms a square, making it easy to transfer to canvas. [16]
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Alexander Rossi (1841–1916) – British artist specializing in genre works; Thomas Bush Hardy (1842–1897) – British marine painter and watercolourist; William John Seward Webber (1842–1919), English sculptor; Lucy Madox Brown (1843–1894) – English painter and watercolourist; Walter Crane (1845–1915) – English artist and book ...
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 ...
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
English art is the body of visual arts made in England.England has Europe's earliest and northernmost ice-age cave art. [1] Prehistoric art in England largely corresponds with art made elsewhere in contemporary Britain, but early medieval Anglo-Saxon art saw the development of a distinctly English style, [2] and English art continued thereafter to have a distinct character.