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Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews, c. 1748–1750 Henry Moore, Large Reclining Figure, 1984. 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.
David Bindman (ed.), The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of British Art (London, 1985) Joseph Burke, English Art, 1714–1800 (Oxford, 1976) William Gaunt, A Concise History of English Painting (London, 1978) William Gaunt, The Great Century of British Painting: Hogarth to Turner (London, 1971) Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art ...
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.
The following is a list of notable English and British painters (in chronological order). This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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 ...
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England.Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 [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 ...
Samuel Scott (1702–1770) – British landscape painter; James Seymour (c.1702–1752) – English painter especially of equestrian art; William Hoare (c.1707–1792) – English painter especially of pastels; Francis Hayman (1708–1776) – English painter, illustrator, and one of the founding members of the Royal Academy