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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 ...
It is home to one of the world's greatest collections of Western European paintings. Founded in 1824, from an initial purchase of 36 paintings by the British Government, its collections have since grown to about 2,300 paintings by roughly 750 artists dating from the mid-13th century to 1900, most of which are on display.
Emmanuel de Critz (1608–1665); William Dobson (1610–1646); John Michael Wright (1617–1694); Peter Lely (1618–1680) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to Charles II (1661) ...
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 ]
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century. Bishop Aubert ...
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Maude Goodman (1853–1938) (a.k.a. Matilda Scanes) – English Victorian fine art painter and children's book illustrator, Romantic genre paintings; Caroline Gotch (1854–1945) – English painter associated with the Newlyn School of artists; Walter Dendy Sadler (1854–1923) – English painter; Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) – Cornish ...
Pages in category "Paintings in the Royal Collection of the United Kingdom" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .