Presentation "British Artists"

British Artists

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 8 January 1836 – 25 June 1912, was a Dutch painter of special British denizenship. Alma-Tadema's works are remarkable for the way in which flowers, textures and hard reflecting substances, like metals, pottery, and especially marble, are painted – indeed, his realistic depiction of marble led him to be called the 'marbellous painter'.

The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888),oil on canvas

Unconscious Rivals, (1893), oil on panel

The Finding of Moses, 1904, oil on canvas

Elizabeth Blackwell 1707 - 1758 was a Scottish botanical illustrator and author who was best known as both the artist and engraver for the plates of "A Curious Herbal", published between 1737 and 1739.

Illustration from Herbarium Blackwellianum. Illustration from A Curious Herbal

Benjamin West. October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820 was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence and the Seven Years War. He was the second president of the Royal Academy in London, serving from 1792 to 1805 and 1806 to 1820. He was offered a knighthood by the British Crown, but declined it, believing that he should instead be made a peer. He said that "Art is the representation of human beauty, ideally perfect in design, graceful and noble in attitude.”

Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky c. 1816 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Death of General Wolfe, 1770

Louis Wain(5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings, which consistently featured anthropomorphised large-eyed cats and kittens.

A naturalistic cat from early in Wain's career.

An early Louis Wain caricature, featuring bulldogs rather than cats.

This cat, like many painted during this period, is shown with abstract patterns behind it.

William Hamilton(1751–1801) was an English painter and illustrator

Marie Antoinette being taken to her execution, 1794

John Philip Kemble as Richard III, c. 1787

William Hogarth10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.

The Assembly at Wanstead House. Earl Tylney and family in foreground.

Thomas Gainsborough(christened 14 May 1727, died 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

Girl with Pigs, 1781–82, said by Sir Joshua Reynolds to be "the best picture he ever painted".

Daniel Maclise(25 January 1806 – 25 April 1870) was an Irish history, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in London, England.

"Sacrifie of Noah" to 1853

Elizabeth Southerden Thompson, Lady Butler (3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933) was a British painter, one of the few female painters to achieve fame for history paintings, especially military battle scenes, at the end of that tradition.

"Remnants of an Army", showing the only British survivor of the 1842 retreat from Kabul

Sir Alfred Edward East (December 15, 1844 – September 28, 1913) was an English painter.

The Fiesta

Lake Maggiore from Stresappt_xxshearppt_x

Joseph van Aken(c.1699 – 4 July 1749 London) was a Flemish artist, a portrait, genre and drapery painter who spent most of his career in England. He was noted for his skill in painting fabrics, and was employed as a costume painter by many leading artists.

"Flemish" dress Englishwoman Elizabeth Danchev. Joseph Van Aken and Thomas Hudson.

John Constable11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter.

"Stonehenge." Watercolor. 1835

Sir John Everett Millais8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Cherry Ripe (1879) Private Collection

Alexander Ignatius Roche17 August 1861 – 10 March 1921 was a Scottish artist in the late 19th century and an important figure in the “Glasgow Boys”.

"Fishwife from New Haven"

Charles Burton Barber (1845–1894), was an English painter who attained great success with his paintings of children and their pets.

A Special Pleader, 1893

Suspense, 1894

Off to School, 1883

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