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PAINTING COLOURS
For details of colour pigments
used by 18th century English language
oil painters, see:
Eighteenth Century Color palette.

WORLD'Due south BEST ARTISTS
For details of the best modern
painters, since 1800, see:
Famous Painters.

WORLD'S GREATEST ARTWORKS
For a list of the Tiptop ten painters/
sculptors: Best Artists of All Fourth dimension.
For the best oils/watercolours,
see: Greatest Paintings Always.

MEANING OF ART
For a discussion of the types,
values, and significance of the
visual arts, see: Definition of Art.

Best English language Painters Built-in 1700-1800

• William Hogarth (1697-1764)
Pioneer figurative painter; founder of English language portraiture and genre-painting.
• Allan Ramsay (1713-84)
Scottish-born portrait painter, official portraitist to Rex George Three.
• Richard Wilson (1714-82)
Pioneer of English language mural painting.
• Alexander Cozens (1717-86)
One of the first exclusively landscape painters; noted for monochrome works.
• Nathaniel Strop the Elder (1718-84)
Irish gaelic portraitist settled in London; earliest of the 18th-century miniaturists.
• Joshua Reynolds (1723-92)
Grand manner portraitist, start President of London Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
• George Stubbs (1724-1806).
Finest ever animalier and equestrian equus caballus painter.
• Francis Cotes (1725-70)
Follower of Reynolds, noted for his sensitive portraits in cool colours.
• Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88)
Outstanding portrait and landscape painter.
• Johann Zoffany (1733-1810)
Fine genre painter, visual chronicler and portrait creative person.
• Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-97)
Highly original portraitist and genre painter, noted for candle-lit scenes.
• George Romney (1734-1802)
Noted for his sympathetic, charming just mediocre portraits.
• John Singleton Copley (1737-1815)
Of British parents, initially a portraitist, became a great history painter.
• Benjamin W (1738-1820)
American creative person active in London. 2d President of Royal Academy.
• Tilly Kettle (c.1740-86)
Follower of Reynolds who made a fortune painting Princes, Nabobs of India.
• Richard Cosway (1740-1821)
Greatest English miniaturist painter of the close of the 18th-century.
• John Hamilton Mortimer (1741-89)
Romantic, history painter; lifelong friend of Joseph Wright.
• James Barry (1741-1806)
I of the best Irish artists in London, noted for his mythological painting executed in the 'grand style'.
• Henry Fuseli (1741-1825)
Swiss-born Romantic artist, symbolist painter.
• Ozias Humphrey (1742-1810)
Miniaturist, pastel artist, afterward Portrait Painter in Crayons to George III.
• John Russell (1745-1806)
Miniaturist portrait creative person in crayon, pastel, plumbago or lead pencil.
• Henry Walton (1746-1813)
Genre painter of grace and amuse in the manner of the slap-up Jean Chardin.
• John Robert Cozens (1752-99)
Son of Alexander Cozens; the finest landscape watercolourist of his twenty-four hour period.
• Thomas Stothard (1755-1834)
Illustrative artist noted for his literary painting and small-scale volume-illustrations.
• Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)
Virtuoso portrait creative person, a Scottish Holbein or Van Dyke.
• William Blake (1757-1827)
Highly original engraver, etcher, watercolourist and illustrator.
• John Hoppner (1758-1810)
Portrait painter to Prince of Wales (George IV) despite lack of individuality.
• John Opie (1761-1807)
Best known for Portrait of the Painter and Portrait of a Boy.
• John Crome (1768-1821)
Founder of Norwich school of landscape painters, inspired by Hobbema.
• Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830)
President of the Royal Academy, polished/flashy Regency era portraitist.
• Martin Archer Shee (1769-1850)
President of the Regal University, good portraitist without Lawrence'due south vitality.
• James Ward (1769-1859)
Much admired romantic, dramatic painter of animals in mural settings.
• Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
England's first major watercolourist.
• JMW Turner (1775-1851)
The greatest English watercolourist and landscape painter.
• John Constable (1776-1837)
England's greatest naturalist mural artist.
• John Varley (1778-1842)
Influential drawing teacher, known for romantic lake and mountain scenes.
• Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779-1844)
Landscape creative person noted for classical schemes; known as "the English language Claude".
• John Sell Cotman (1782-1842)
Cartoon instructor, watercolourist painter of Norwich school, illustrator.
• Samuel Prout (1783-1852)
Architectural water-colour painter of gothic cathedrals, churches, and towns.
• David Cox (1783-1859)
One of the cracking landscape artists, wrote treatise on watercolour painting.
• Peter de Wint (1784-1849)
Landscape artist best known for his watercolours, and also some oil paintings.
• David Wilkie (1785-1841)
Rural genre painter, inspired past Dutch Realists; popularized rustic scenes.
• Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846)
Tragi-comical painter of historical/religious paintings in the '1000 Manner'.
• William Mulready (1786-1863)
Talented Irish genre painter & colourist, a precursor of the Pre-Raphaelites.
• William Etty (1787-1849)
Arguably the greatest English language painter of the nude figure (York Art Gallery).
• John Martin (1789-1854)
Famous for huge historical landscapes. Like Samuel Palmer, a slap-up Romantic.
• Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859)
Painter of literary/historical themes, best known as biographer of Constable.

Best English Painters Born 1800-1900

• Frederick Yeates Hurlstone (1800-69)
Genre/discipline painter, noted for works like Scene from Gil Blas (Tate Gallery).
• Thomas Webster (1800-86)
Rustic genre painter, follower of Wilkie.
• Richard Parkes Bonington (1802-28)
Comparable to Turner & Lawman; noted for his French littoral/river scenes.
• Edwin Landseer (1802-73)
Skilled but overly sentimental animal painter, lacked Stubbs' course.
• John Frederick Lewis (1805-76)
Vivid colourist, orientalist watercolour painter of life in Espana and Egypt.
• William Dyce (1806-64)
Nazarene & Pre-Raphaelite artist, scientist, art administrator.
• Daniel Maclise (1806-seventy)
Great Irish gaelic artist and draughtsman, noted for his mural history paintings.
• William James Muller (1812-45)
Early English exponent of Orientalist painting. Influenced by Lawman.
• Augustus Egg (1816-63)
Moralizing painter of Victorian dramas (Past and Present, Tate Gallery).
• John Phillip (1816-67)
Talented genre painter, follower of Wilkie, influenced by Velazquez.
• EM Ward (1816-79)
Illustrative painter of historical/genre subjects.
• Alfred Stevens (1817-75)
Outstanding Victorian painter and sculptor.
• George Frederick Watts (1817-1904)
The virtually revered English language artist (portraitist, sculptor) of the late 19th century.
• John Ruskin (1819-1900)
Included for his importance every bit one of the great fine art critics of the 19th century.
• William Powell Frith (1819-1909)
Immensely popular Victorian painter of chestnut-packed public scenes.
• Ford Madox Brown (1821-93)
Pre-Raphaelite painter influenced by Cornelius and Overbeck.
• William Holman Chase (1827-1910)
Leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Alliance.
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82)
Romantic painter; leading member of the Pre-Raphaelites motion.
• John Everett Millais (1829-96)
Pre-Raphaelite, noted for his fashionable academic-style portraiture.
• Lord Frederick Leighton (1830-96)
Highly influential painter/sculptor - a major effigy in Victorian art of the day.
• Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98)
Romantic painter, associate of Rossetti; virtuoso of abstract linear pattern.
• William Morris (1834-96)
Painter, designer, decorative creative person; leader of Arts & Crafts Motility.
• James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
American artist active in England, noted for his Nocturnes and etchings.
• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)
Anglo-Dutch painter of fashionable erotic genre scenes set in Hellenic republic & Rome.
• Alfred Sisley (1839-1899)
Of English parents; one of the swell Impressionist landscape artists.
• John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
Romantic English creative person, noted for his masterpiece The Lady of Shalott.
• Walter Sickert (1860-1942)
The greatest of the British Postal service-Impressionist painters.
• Aubrey Beardsley (1872-98)
Art Nouveau illustrator, known for illustrations of Salome and Morte d'Arthur.
• Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
Dynamic, idiosynchratic abstract painter, co-founder of Vorticism movement.
• L.S. Lowry (1887-1976)
Manchester urban landscape and genre painter noted for 'match-stick men'.
• Paul Nash (1889-1946)
State of war artist, landscape painter, leading English Surrealist.
• Graham Sutherland (1903-80)
Included because of his Neo-Romanticism which he shares with Nash.

English language Painters: More than Information

• For more than on 19th century Romanticism, run across Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
• For later works, see: Contemporary British Painting (c.1960-2000).

All-time Painters Effectually The World

For the finest painters in the 5 main painting genres, see:

• Best History Painters (Narrative, mythological works)
• Best Portrait Artists (Portraiture, private, grouping portraits)
• Best Genre-Painters (Everyday scenes, exemplified by Dutch Realists)
• Best Mural Artists (Arcadian, Plein air, studio works)
• Best Still Life Painters (From Baroque to the present)

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