Famouse British Painters

Joseph Turner, the greatest English romantic landscape painter. He

is commonly known as 'the painter of light'
Turner was the master of the air and wind, rain and sunshine, horizon, ships and sea. He dissolved the forms of his landscape in the play of light and shade, he anticipated the work of French Impressionist paintings. During his life Turner painted some hundreds of paintings and some thousands of water-colours and drawings

was impressionist painter. Most of his pictures are arts about

nature. "When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture". Although Constable produced paintings throughout his life for the "finished" picture market of patrons and R.A. exhibitions, constant refreshment in the form of on-the-spot studies was essential to his working method.

Thomas Gainsborough was a master of English school of painting.

He was a portraitist and a landscape painter. .
In his portraits green and blue colours predominate. He was the first British painter who painted British native countryside. He painted a wagon of hay, a poor cottage, poor peasants. His works of landscape contain much poetry and music.

discovery of Gainsborough was the creation of a form of

art in which the characters and the background form a single unity. The landscape is not kept in the background, but in most cases man and nature are fused in a single whole through the atmospheric harmony of mood. Gainsborough emphasized that the natural background for his characters should be nature itself. His works, painted in clear and transparent tones, had a considerable influence on the artists of the English school. He was in advance of his time. His art became a forerunner of the Romantic Movement.