English painting
By: Ernest Chesneau
Publisher: Parkstone Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781906981891
Subjects: English Painting; ART / General
Work titles: English school of painting
Description: "The English school of painting was officially recognised at the beginning of the 18th century through the work of William Hogarth. It includes works by the most famous English artists, such as Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Mallord William Turner, John Constable, Edward Burne-Jones, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This subject is introduced with a very unique text, published in 1882: a French study of English pictorial art. The author, Ernest Chesneau, was highly-cultured, an art historian and inspector of Fine Arts. He explains the beginnings of this school which excels in portraiture and landscapes, and reminds us of the English brilliance regarding watercolors, not forgetting to include the work of the Pre-Raphaelites"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The Old Masters (1730-1850); title: Landscape and Watercolour Painting; title: The Modern School (1850-1882); title: The Pre-Raphaelites; title: Landscape, Genre, and Historical Painting.