In the World of British Art

IN THE WORLD OF BRITISH ART (18-19 centuries)

Word Revision 1 painting [ˈpeɪntɪŋ] живопись 2 master [ˈmæstər ] мастер 3 create [kriːˈeɪt] создавать 4 outstanding [ˌæʊtˈstændɪŋ] выдающийся 5 portraitist [portraitist] портретист 6 still life [ˈstɪl ˈlaɪf] спокойная жизнь 7 landscape [ˈlænˌskeɪp] пейзаж 8 countryside [ˈkəntriːˌsaɪd] сельская местность 9 observation [ˌɑbsərˈveɪʃən ] наблюдение

Word Revision 10 contain [kənˈteɪn] вмещать, включать в себя 11 impressionist [ɪmˈpreʃnɪst] импрессионист 12 representative [ˌreprɪˈzentətɪv] представитель 13 romanticism [romantism] романтизм 14 exhibition [ixhibition] выставка 15 to display [dɪˈspleɪ] показ, демонстрация 16 to offer [ˈɔfər] предлагать 17 to include [ɪnˈkluːd] содержать в себе 18 to contain [kənˈteɪn] ограничивать, сдерживать

Word Revision 19 to consider [concide] считать 20 to enrich [ɪnˈrɪtʃ] обогащать 21 to overestimate [overestimeit] переоценивать 22 value [ˈvæljuː] ценить, ценность 23 spirit [ˈspɪrət] дух 24 universal [ˌjuːnəˈvərsəl] всеобщий, универсальный 25 fame [ˈfeɪm] слава 26 masterpiece [ˈmæstərˌpiːs] шедевр 27 genre [ˈʒɑnrə] жанр

Word Revision 28 outlook [ˈæʊtˌlʊk] Точка зрения, прогноз 29 inner world [ˈɪnər ˈwərld] Внутренний мир 30 technique [tekˈniːk] техника 31 forerunner [ˈfɔrˌrənər ] предвестник, предшественник

The National Gallery of London

The Tate Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery

Somerset House

William Hogarth (10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) An English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip - like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".

Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram, 1740 Portrait of the Shrimp Girl, 1740 - 1745

The Tête à Tête from the Marriage à la Mode series (No. 2), 1743 Gin Lane, 1751

Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) An influential 18th-century English painter, specializing in portraits and promoting the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was one of the founders and first President of the Royal Academy. King George III appreciated his merits and knighted him in 1769.

Commodore the Honorable Augustus Keppel, 1749 Portrait of Jane Fleming, Countess of Harrington , 1778

Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) Was a leading English portrait painter and president of the Royal Academy. Lawrence was the most fashionable portrait painter in Europe. His reputation waned during Victorian times, but has been partially restored in more recent ones.

Coronation portrait of George IV, 1821 Sally Siddons (1775-1803), 18th century

Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) Was an English portrait and landscape painter. He painted quickly and his later pictures are characterized by a light palette and easy strokes. He preferred landscapes to portraits.

Portrait of a Lady in Blue, 1770 The Harvest Wagon, 1767

Samuel Scott (1702 – 12 Oct 1772) Was British landscape painter known for his riverside scenes and seascapes. Scott earned a considerable and well-deserved reputation for his shore and river scenes, which were well-drawn and painted, and enlivened with figures. His views of London Bridge, the Custom-house Quay, and other pictures of the Thames earned him the name "the English Canaletto".

A Danish Timber Bark Getting Under Way, 1736 Custom-house Quay, 1760

Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) Was a Welsh landscape painter and one of the founder members in 1768 of Royal Academy. Wilson has been described as '...the most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country.' He is considered the father of British landscape painting.

Lake Avernus, 1765 River Scene with Castle, 1751-1757

Williiam Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of. the Romantic Age.

Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing, 1786 The Night of Enitharmon's Joy, 1795

Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) Was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light“ and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to impressionism.

Fishermen at Sea, 1796 Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway, 1844

John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) Was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection. "I should paint my own places best", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, "painting is but another word for feeling".

Dedham Vale, 1802 The Cornfield, 1826

John Everett Millais (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Millais was elected as an associate member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1853, and was soon elected as a full member of the Academy, in which he was a prominent and active participant. He was granted a baronetcy in 1885, the first artist to be honoured with a hereditary title.

Isabella, 1849 Eve of St. Agnes, 1863

William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) Was an English painter, and one of the founders of the Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour and elaborate symbolism. For Hunt it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. He eventually had to give up painting because failing eyesight meant that he could not get the level of quality that he wanted. His last major work, The Lady of Shallot, was completed with the help of an assistant.

The Shadow of Death, 1870 The Lady of Shalott, 1905

Every artist dips his brush into his own soul, And paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Wart Beecher.