Category: History - British
The current English school of art is a creation of a comparatively modern date. It is a mistake, however, to assume that there were no native painters in England under the Plantagenets, and that we were entirely dependent on foreigners for such art as we possessed. The little...
Domestic subject, or _genre_, painting in England may be said to have originated with Hogarth, but it made slow progress after his death till the commencement of the nineteenth...
8. CHAPTER V.GIOVANNI BATTISTA CIPRIANI, R.A. (1727--1785), a Florentine, came to London in 1755 and remained here, gaining a great reputation as an historic painter at a time when foreign a...
5. CHAPTER II.The period of the Renaissance found all eyes directed to Italy, and presently England welcomed a number of foreign artists who became the teachers, more or less worthy, of our c...
12. CHAPTER IX.JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER (1775--1851) stands at the head of English landscape painters. It has been said that though others may have equalled or surpassed him in some respe...
7. CHAPTER IV.Hogarth was the first original painter of England, and he was too original either to copy or to be copied; but he founded no school. What he did was to draw aside the curtain an...
10. CHAPTER VII.Water-colour painting is in one sense the most ancient mode of pictorial art. We find examples of it in the tombs of the Egyptians, in the Roman catacombs, and in the houses of...
9. CHAPTER VI.The earliest book illustrations in England were illuminations and repetitions of them on wood. Frontispieces followed, in which a portrait was surrounded by an allegory. Of this...
13. CHAPTER X.Many of our painters who aspired to high art in the field of history were forced to abandon these ambitious designs, and confine themselves to the more lucrative branches of the...
11. CHAPTER VIII.In tracing the progress of British painting, we have seen that early in the eighteenth century the English public thought most of foreign artists. There was no belief in the pow...
6. CHAPTER III.Hitherto we have seen painting in England confined to foreign artists, or to natives who more or less slavishly copied them. We have seen, likewise, that many of the English pai...
4. CHAPTER I.The current English school of art is a creation of a comparatively modern date. It is a mistake, however, to assume that there were no native painters in England under the Plant...
3. CHAPTER XI.2. CHAPTER VIII.1. CHAPTER V.