CHAPTER I

COMMENCEMENT OF MODERN ART IN ENGLAND

The commencement of modern art in England.--Two divisions of modern art since the sixteenth century.--Classic and naturalistic schools.--English succeed the Dutch in the seventeenth century.--William Hogarth: his purpose and his inartistic methods.--Sir Joshua Reynolds.--Thomas Gainsborough.--Comparison between them.--Reynolds, an historical painter; Gainsborough, a painter of landscape.--Pictures of Richard Wilson show the end of classical landscape.--Those of Gainsborough, the beginning of "paysage intime" 9