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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 ...
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 ]
It is home to one of the world's greatest collections of Western European paintings. Founded in 1824, from an initial purchase of 36 paintings by the British Government, its collections have since grown to about 2,300 paintings by roughly 750 artists dating from the mid-13th century to 1900, most of which are on display.
The British art historian and director of the Courtauld Institute of Art from 1980 to 1993, Dennis Farr, wrote that Sickert's first paintings of theatre or music hall interiors date from three years before Little Dot Hetherington at the Old Bedford. In these paintings, "he [the artist] shows his devotion to Degas no less by his choice of ...
The painting commissioned by the East India Company was a tribute to the British Empire. The East India Company offers its riches to Britannia. The painting symbolizes the British Empire's imperial colonial domination over the world. Paintings depicting colonization were a popular theme among painters during the period of colonization.
Scott was a pioneering British maritime painter who increasingly turned to views of Thames. His contemporary Canaletto also painted the bridge several times during his period in England. [4] It was also notably painted in its incomplete state by Richard Wilson. [5] Version of the painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858 is an oil-on-canvas painting by British artist William Dyce, depicting the landscape at Pegwell Bay, on the east coast of Kent. Considered a Pre-Raphaelite work, Dyce employs a mode of heightened realism and intricate detail to create a powerful landscape.
John James Wilson was a prolific artist, exhibiting in excess of six hundred paintings during his working life. His brother, William Anthony Wilson (1814–1873) was also an artist. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He had a son W. J. Wilson (1833–1909) who emigrated to Australia where he became a scene painter, actor and theatre manager.