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Frederick Goodall (snr) (1822–1904) – English artist specialising in oriental scenes. Frederick William Keyl (1823–1871) – German-born British painter of animals. Charles Davidson (1824–1902) – English watercolour painter. Henry Alexander Bowler (1824–1903) – English painter and academic.
Philip (or Philippe) Jean (1755–1802) – of Jersey. Thomas Stothard (1755–1834) Henry Bone (1755–1834) William Blake (1757–1827) George William Sartorius (1759–1828) Lemuel Francis Abbott (1760–1803) Sir Thomas Lawrence (1760–1830) – Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King. George Augustus Wallis (1761–1847)
100 Great Paintings. 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 selection ranges from 12th-century China through the 1950s, with ...
Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA (/ ˈɡeɪnzbərə /; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, [ 1 ] he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. [ 2 ]
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 ...
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 ...
Walter Anderson (English artist) James Andrews (botanical artist) George French Angas. Helen Cordelia Angell. Richard Ansdell. Anne Coke, Viscountess Anson. Henry Mark Anthony. Caroline Maria Applebee. Fred Appleyard.
Anthony Toto and Bartolommeo Penni. Hans Holbein the Younger, spent many years on two visits, painting the best portraits of the Tudor period. Levina Teerlinc, miniaturist and lady-in-waiting. John Bettes the Elder, engaged for decorative work at Whitehall from 1531 to 1533; also a portrait-painter and miniaturist.