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100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration , the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [ 2 ]
Mabel Lee Hankey (1867–1943) – English artist, mainly of miniature portraits painted in watercolour on ivory; Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956) – Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer; J M Balliol Salmon (1868–1953) – British painter; Charles Murray Padday (1868–1954 ...
The following is a list of notable English and British painters (in chronological order). This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The oldest surviving British art includes Stonehenge from around 2600 BC, and tin and gold works of art produced by the Beaker people from around 2150 BC. The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular "Insular Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs ...
The Course of Empire is a series of five paintings created by the English-born American painter Thomas Cole between 1833 and 1836, and now in the collection of the New-York Historical Society. The series depicts the growth and fall of an imaginary city, situated on the lower end of a river valley, near its meeting with a bay of the sea.
He studied art at St John's Wood School of Art from 1935 to 1938 [2] and was greatly influenced by his fellow student Michael Ayrton, who enthused him with the work of French neo-romantic painters. [1] He spent eight months studying in France, frequently accompanied by Ayrton, and returned from Paris when the Second World War began.
The Greatest Painting in Britain Vote was a survey made by BBC Radio 4's Today programme in Summer 2005 with the aim of discovering the best-loved painting in Britain, in the manner of 100 Greatest Britons and The Big Read. It was criticised for the conservatism of the final selection as well as the unsuitability of the idea for the non-visual ...
Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom (1826), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Edward Hicks was born in his grandfather's mansion at Attleboro (now Langhorne ), in Bucks County, Pennsylvania . His parents were Anglican .