“LOVE ART. OF ALL LIES, IT IS THE LEAST UNTRUE”

Gustave Flaubert

THE GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH

PAINTING ( the 17th- 19th centuries)

William Hogarth

Joshua Reynolds

Thomas Gainsborough

Joseph Turner

John Constable

“The Golden Age” of English Painting

The period from Hogarth to Constable and Turner, that is the period between the 1730 & the 1830, is considered to be the Golden Age of English painting. Never in any other period did England contribute so much to the history of world art.

English art had some peculiarities. Right from the beginning English artists worked almost only for some private person. That’s why portrait painting was the leading national genre of the English school. The landscape painting began to attract the attention of painters in the middle of the 18 th century, but didn’t win the love of the public for a long time. It began to flourish in the 19th century. As for genre-painting it became popular at the end of the 18th century. Brilliant artists of that time made English painting one of the famous among the Europian art schools.

William Hogarth

The first great English painter who raised British pictorial art to a high level

Famous for so-called “modern moral subjects”

A humorist and satirist

Harmonious in colouring

Capable and direct in theme & composition

The Marriage –a-la-ModeMarriage Contract

Marriage-a-la-ModeShortly After Marriage

The Graham Children

Shrimp Girl

Thomas Gainsborough

The purest lyricist

A brilliant out-door portrait painter

Portraits are inseparable from landscapes

The Blue Boy

The Mr and Mrs Hallet Morning Walk

Mr and Mrs Andrews

Mrs Thomas Hibbert

Joshua ReynoldsPortraitistConvincing likenessDenied static portraitsA fine colouristA master of composition

The Archers

Simplicity Dawson

Love Me Love My Dog

John Constable

Affection for nature

An acute observer of nature

Close to Impressionism

A notable treatment of skies

The Deadham Valley

A Flowerpiece

The Haywain

The Malvernhill

Stonehenge

On The Coast

The Sky

Joseph Turner(1775-1851)

A genius seascape painterReveals the grand beauty of the seaThe dynamic force and movementA ship was a living creature to him

The Shipwreck

Fishermen At Sea

After the Shipwreck

Misty Morning

The Fighting Temeraire (The Last Voyage)

The Funeral in the Sea