English Painting

English Painting
Authors
Chesneau, Ernest
Publisher
Parkstone Press
ISBN
9781906981891
Date
2012-12-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
13.32 MB
Lang
en
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The English school of painting was officially recognized at the beginning of the 18th century through the work of William Hogarth. It includes works by the most famous English artists, such as Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Mallord William Turner, John Constable, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This subject is introduced with a very unique text, published in 1882: a French study of English pictorial art. The author, Ernest Chesneau, was highly-cultured, an art historian and inspector of Fine Arts. He explains the beginnings of this school which excels in portraiture and landscapes, and reminds us of the English brilliance regarding water colours, not forgetting to include the work of the Pre-Raphaelites.