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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Image credits: culturaltutor Frederic Edwin Church's magnificent painting El Khasné, Petra (1874) depicts the temple in the historical city of Petra, Jordan.Church was an American landscape ...
Victorian painting refers to the distinctive styles of painting in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). Victoria's early reign was characterised by rapid industrial development and social and political change, which made the United Kingdom one of the most powerful and advanced nations in the world.
The collection includes photographs and caricatures as well as paintings, drawings and sculpture. [4] One of its best-known images is the Chandos portrait, the most famous portrait of William Shakespeare [5] although there is some uncertainty about whether the painting actually is of the playwright. [6]
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) ...