ENGLISH PAINTERS

who raised English pictorial art to a high level of

importance.
His engravings of modern morality subjects  were aimed at a wide public, and their outstanding success established his financial independence.
To safeguard his livelihood against pirated editions, he fought for legislation protecting artists' copyright.
Britain's first copyright act was passed in 1735, the year he published his satirical eight-part series The Rake's Progress.

The Rake's Progress

Royal Academy of Arts, was not only a painter but

the founder of the academic principles of the "British school".
Reynolds was the most outstanding portraitist of the 18th century.
In his pictures he did not only paint portraits but produced characters.

Love Me, Love My Dog.

good amateur violinist and a lover of the drama, he

was an artistic person.
T. Gainsborough is the creator of the great English school of landscape painting.
His great love for the English country and his delicate understanding of nature are felt in his pictures.

Landscape

He was the first landscape painter who considered that every

painter should make his sketches direct from nature, which is working in the open air.
Constable was a realist. The most famous of his works are “Flatford Mill”, “The white horse”,   “Waterloo Bridge” and others.
Constable may truly be considered the father of modern landscape painting.

Flatford Mill

business was to paint the light.
He proved that with the

help of  light it is, possible to show qualities of any subject.
Son of a London barber, he started drawing and painting when he was a little boy.
In 1802 Turner was elected academi­cian of the Royal Academy, where his oil paintings had been exhibited.
He died at the age of seventy-six.
Turner was a representative of Romanticism.

Burning of the Houses of Parliament