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Thomas Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews, c. 1748–1750 The Angel of the North near Gateshead by Antony Gormley, 1998. The art of the United Kingdom refers to all forms of visual art in or associated with the country since the formation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 and encompasses English art, Scottish art, Welsh art and Irish art, and forms part of Western art history.
David Bindman (ed.), The Thames and Hudson Encyclopaedia of British Art (London, 1985) Joseph Burke, English Art, 1714–1800 (Oxford, 1976) William Gaunt, A Concise History of English Painting (London, 1978) William Gaunt, The Great Century of British Painting: Hogarth to Turner (London, 1971) Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art ...
The Government Art Collection (GAC) is the collection of artworks owned by the UK government and administered by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). The GAC's artworks are used to decorate major government buildings in the UK and around the world, and to promote British art, culture and history.
Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day. As such, it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world (only the Yale Center for British Art can claim similar expansiveness, but with less depth). [citation needed] More recent artists include David Hockney, Peter Blake and Francis Bacon. Works ...
British painting had been strongly influenced by Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), the first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, who believed that the purpose of art was "to conceive and represent their subjects in a poetical manner, not confined to mere matter of fact", and that artists should aspire to emulate the Italian Renaissance painter Raphael in making their subjects appear as close ...
Art exhibition at the King's Gallery, Buckingham Palace [a] The Royal Collection of the British royal family is the largest private art collection in the world. [1] [2] [3] Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the Royal Collection Trust.
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House in Piccadilly in London, England. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects.
A History of British Art is a 1996 BBC six-part television documentary series tracing the history of British art from 1066 to the modern day. Written and presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon, it was originally aired on BBC2 in 1996 and later repeated on BBC Four in 2008.