English painters

1. English
painters

2.  Every artist dips his brush in his own soul,
and paints his own nature into his
pictures.
 Henry Ward Beecher

3. Charles I, King of England, from Three
Angles by Anthony van Dyck.

4. Watercolor: Burnham Beeches by
Miles Birket Foster (1825-1899)

5. The Elizabethan Nicholas Hilliard
(1547-1619)

6.  The Elizabethan Nicholas Hilliard (1547-
1619), was the most celebrated of English
miniaturists. His reputation extended to
France. Hilliard was a follower of Hans
Holbein. He was also the author of a treatise
on miniature painting, "The Art of Limning".
 Hilliard was the author of the miniatures of
Elizabeth I, 1572, Sir Walter Raleigh, 1585,
Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, and other
members of the courts of Elizabeth I and
James I of England.

7. Elizabeth I, 1572

8. Sir Walter Raleigh, 1585

9. lizabeth, Queen of Bohemia

12. William Hogarth (1697 – 1764)

13.  William Hogarth (1697 – 1764) was one of
the greatest innovators in English art. He was
a professional rebel. He found English art
sycophantic, and determined to make it
independent. Instead of working for a few
rich patrons, he evolved the idea of making
his living out of popular engravings of his
pictures. He believed that the lack of a native
school of painting was largely due to the
fashions imposed on a credulous public by
connoisseurs and critics and he waged
continual war on taste and the Old Masters.

14. The Beggar's Opera 1731

15. The Bench, 1758

16. Graham Children.

17. Sir Joshua Reynolds

18.  Sir Joshua Reynolds (Plympton, Devon 1723- London
1792) was an English Rococo Painter and distinguished
member of London's intellectual society. By 1760, Reynolds
had become the most popular portrait painter in London. In
1768, he founded with Thomas Gainsborough the Royal
Academy of Arts. In 1784, Reynolds was appointed
principal royal portrait painter. He was already been
knighted since 1769.
 Reynolds' works show an exceptional combination of
emotions and technique. Often portraiture with subjects
related to Greek and Roman deities, or men, children and
women in a wonderful colorist style. Creativity, diversity
and originality is present in his painting. Portrait of Nelly
O’Brien (Wallace collection) is considered one of his
masterpieces.
 Since 1912, an statue of him is in the courtyard of the
Royal Academy.

19. Portrait of Nelly O'Brien

20. Lady Caroline Howard

21. Admiral Hood, 1783

22. Thomas Gainsborough

23.  Thomas Gainsborough (Sudbury, Suffolk, 1727 – London, 1788)
was a landscape and portrait painter, considered one of the great
English masters. In the aristocratic spa town of Bath and later in
London, he became well-known for portraits like Mrs. Philip
Thicknesse (1760), Mary, Countess Howe (about 1763-4), The
Blue Boy (exhibited R.A. 1770), and the landscape The Harvest
Wagon (exhibited S.A. 1767). In 1768 he became one of the
foundation members of the Royal Academy, at which he exhibited
annually until 1784.
 In 1780, Gainsborough painted the King George III and Queen
Charlotte, becoming the Royal Family's favorite painter. Before his
death in 1788, he turned from portraiture to pictorial
compositions, producing in all some 200 landscapes in addition to
his prolific output of about 800 portraits of the English
aristocracy. Gainsborough is the master of the English Rococo.
 Sir Joshua Reynolds, President of the Royal Academy, was in
painting his most important rival

24. Lady Georgiana Cavendish, 1787.

25. Two Daughters with a Cat (c. 1759)

26. River Landscape (1768–1770)

27. Joseph Mallord William Turner

28.  Joseph Mallord William Turner (Covent Garden 1775 -
London 1851) was a British Romantic painter. In 1799, he
was elected to the Royal Academy where he exhibited
watercolors from 1790 to 1820.
 In satisfying the fashion for ruins, mountains and
waterfalls, he was pleasing and nourishing himself. Ruined
abbeys awoke his feelings of history and so charged his
mind with the fallacies of hope that this became the title of
a chaotic, illiterate epic from which, throughout his life, he
quoted mottoes for his pictures. (cf: Clark, Ibidem)
 After W. Turner’s death, in 1856, the "Turner Bequest" was
settled by a decree; this contains around 300 oil paintings
and nearly 30,000 sketches and watercolors by his own
hand, all found in his studio.
 It is said that Turner created landscape paintings that are
revolutionary even today.

29. Dido building Carthage, 1815.

30. Chichester Canal's

31. Wreckers Coast of Northumberland,
1836

32. John Constable

33.  John Constable is today recognised as the
major English landscape painter of the 19th
century, matched only by his contemporary,
J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). But he was not
particularly successful during his lifetime.
 Constable, as the son of a prosperous miller,
was brought up in one of the most beautiful
parts of the English country. "These scenes,"
said Constable, "made me a painter--and I
am thankful". His life had always the intense
images of his childhood contemplation, trees,
horses, water, clouds. (cf: Clark, Ibidem)

34. Flatford Mill, 1817

35. The Penance of Jane Shore by William
Blake, 1793.

36. The Hay Wain, 1821.

37. David Cox, Windermere During The
Regatta, 1832.

38. Nursery by Stanley Spencer, 1936