(«Neo-Romanticism gave a modern interpretation to the romantic, visionary works of
the 18th century painter William Blake and the 19th century artist Samuel Palmer.)
The artistic achievements of
the 18th Century painter and engraver, William Hogarth, can be seen on the walls of some of the UK's leading galleries.
His constant growl and snarl makes him more like Danny DeVito as «The Penguin» than
a 18th century painter.
Not exact matches
The room design is a contemporary take on Philadelphia's historic interiors with a fresh interpretation of the city's
18th century of furniture makers, as well as art from local Philadelphia
painters and photographers.
Leigh changes gears a bit with Mr. Turner, a period drama about the life of famed
18th - 19th
century English
painter J.M.W. Turner.
What led them there was the travel writer's initial fascination with the
18th -
century painter Nainsukh, a famed fresco artisan who, along with his brother, Manaku, and his father, were one of the time's leading
painters of the area, Pandit Seu.
The most prestigious portrait
painter in
18th -
century Rome also had a flair for religious and mythological subjects
The overall theme expresses the history of an island that is, relatively speaking, small but one that was constantly receptive to the rest of the world — whether through foreign
painters shaping British art, through
18th -
century trade, or through the apparatus of empire.
Jan van Huysum II was the most admired floral still - life
painter in the late 17th and early
18th centuries.
Dubbed as primitives in the late
18th Century, these
painters enjoyed a revival thanks to the declining interest in Old Masters such as Raphael, seen as champions of an over-stylised art that eventually developed in full - blown mannerism.
Inspired by the
18th -
century painter William Hogarth's moral tale, A Rake's Progress, the tapestries follow the life of a fictional character called Tim Rakewell, as he develops from infancy through his teenage and middle years, to his untimely death in a bloody car accident.
VIGÉE LE BRUN Wife of an art dealer and associate of Marie Antoinette, Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755 - 1842) had the kind of connections that made it possible for a female
painter to have a career in the
18th century.
His own ballerina can be seen reflected in the ball attached to François Boucher's Reclining Girl: her shiny, sweet - wrapper dress echoes the equally sugary silks depicted by the
18th -
century French
painter.
The
painter's key influence include the printmakers of the
18th to 19th
century, but his technique is rooted in earlier German engraving, particularly that of Durer.
The picture is among more than 200 pieces of work on display at the «Museum of Madness» exhibition, which also features pieces by British
painter, Francis Bacon, and the
18th -
century Spanish master, Francisco Goya.
Mr. Thaw started out selling new art (in the 1950s he had a gallery - bookstore in the Algonquin Hotel, where he gave the
painter Joan Mitchell her first New York solo), and the bulk of his collection is in
18th - and 19th -
century material, but some of the show's most arresting images are from Renaissance Europe.
Chris Berens is a Dutch
painter whose work features a fantastical mélange of exotic creatures and
18th century imagery in soft focus.
The Elevation of the Cross (1718), by Mexican
painter Antonio de Torres, will enhance LACMA's leading collection of Spanish colonial painting, while Oxen and Shepherds (
18th century) by Soga Shōhaku is a rare addition of a large - scale Japanese work for a museum outside of Japan.
In one way, one might describe him as a photo - realist, but, as Steele writes in his statement, «If I am, I am also an Impressionist, a Color Field
painter, an
18th -
century landscape
painter and an optical artist.»
In the late
18th century, legendary
painter Benjamin West spent 20 years on a painting for King George III — all for naught.
Elegantly kitsch, the work of
painter Will Cotton draws inspiration from European
18th century masters, pin - up fashion prints, and the board game Candyland.
Frank Hobbs finds contemporary relevance in the
18th century Discourses of
painter Sir Joshua Reynolds.
An exhibition of still lifes by
18th —
century painter Luis Meléndez that closed in January had walls treated with erratically applied plaster and paint to convey a sense of age.
ENGLISH FIGURATIVE PAINTING For details of portraiture, genre painting & subject pictures, see: English Figurative Painting Portrait art of
18th / 19th
century William Hogarth (1697 - 1764)
Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor, painter and mu
Painter, Engraver, Satirist Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 92) Portraitist, President Royal Academy William Blake (1757 - 1827) Watercolourist, Illustrator, Engraver Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 82) Romantic leader of Pre-Raphaelites Alfred Stevens (1817 - 75) Sculptor,
painter and mu
painter and muralist.
PAINTING COLOURS For details of colour pigments used by
18th century English landscape painters, see: Eighteenth Century Colour p
century English landscape
painters, see: Eighteenth
Century Colour p
Century Colour palette.
This exhibition continues to explore the artist's interest in opacity, transparency and the psychology of looking, with specific references to the Claude glass — an
18th -
century painter's tool that contained a lustrous black mirror made of glass or obsidian and was used to view tonalities in landscape subjects.
A must - visit is the combined rare - books shop and contemporary art gallery Harper's Books, featuring work by Irish
painter Genieve Figgis, whose dark, witty parodies of Old Masters and
18th -
century paintings are on view through August 10, followed by a group show featuring abstract and near - surreal paintings by Katherine Bradford, Sarah Braman, Al Freeman, and Adrianne Rubenstein (August 13 to September 25).
The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München has in its care more than 260 sketchbooks — kept by
painters, illustrators, sculptors, architects, as well as travel sketchbooks — ranging from the
18th century right up to the present day.
• Introduction • LIST OF FAMOUS
PAINTERS (1700 - 1900)- English Figurative Painters (18th and 19th Century)- English Landscape Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Figurative Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Japanese Ukiyo - e Artists (19th Century)- Romantic Painters - Pre-Raphaelite Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
PAINTERS (1700 - 1900)- English Figurative
Painters (18th and 19th Century)- English Landscape Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Figurative Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Japanese Ukiyo - e Artists (19th Century)- Romantic Painters - Pre-Raphaelite Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters (
18th and 19th
Century)- English Landscape
Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Figurative Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Japanese Ukiyo - e Artists (19th Century)- Romantic Painters - Pre-Raphaelite Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters (
18th and 19th
Century)- American Figurative
Painters (18th and 19th Century)- American Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Japanese Ukiyo - e Artists (19th Century)- Romantic Painters - Pre-Raphaelite Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters (
18th and 19th
Century)- American Landscape
Painters (19th Century)- Japanese Ukiyo - e Artists (19th Century)- Romantic Painters - Pre-Raphaelite Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters (19th
Century)- Japanese Ukiyo - e Artists (19th
Century)- Romantic
Painters - Pre-Raphaelite Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters - Pre-Raphaelite
Painters - Realist Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters - Realist
Painters - Barbizon Plein Air Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters - Barbizon Plein Air
Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters - Symbolists - Impressionist
Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters - Neo-Impressionists - Nabis - Post-Impressionists - Russian Figurative
Painters (19th Century)- Russian Landscape Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters (19th
Century)- Russian Landscape
Painters (19th Century)- Australian School (19th Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster D
Painters (19th
Century)- Australian School (19th
Century)- Art Nouveau / Poster Designers
Belgian
painter Michael Borremans has long mined the aesthetic moorings of antiquity for his work, creating meticulously labored paintings that owe much to 17th and
18th century painterly technique.
The enormous success of 17th -
century Dutch painting overpowered the work of subsequent generations, and no Dutch
painter of the
18th century — nor, arguably, a 19th -
century one before Van Gogh — is well known outside the Netherlands.
The
18th -
century American
painter Benjamin West was both a founder of the Royal Academy and its second president.
Selected Exhibitions 2009 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, For Real, group exhibit 2008 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, What Remains: The American Landscape Portfolio Edition, solo exhibit Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Trees of Life, 30th Anniversary Show, group exhibit 2007 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, What Remains: The American Landscape, solo exhibit 2006 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, 28th Anniversary Exhibition, group exhibit 2005 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Into the Minds of Nine, group exhibit Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, La vie quotidienne: Scenes from Paris to Provence, solo exhibit Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 22nd Annual Portrait Show 2004 Land Trust of Virginia, Middleburg, VA, Vanishing Landscapes 2004, group exhibit Parker Gallery, Washington, DC, Beyond Brittany: 1977 - 1979, group exhibit Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 21st Annual Portrait Show Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Zenith Style: Art & Craft for Home & Office, group exhibit Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land, group exhibit 2003 Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda, Inside & Out, House & Home, group exhibit Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Near and Far: Recent Landscape Paintings, solo exhibit Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 20th Annual Portrait Show 2002 Land Trust of Virginia, Middleburg, VA, Vanishing Landscapes Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, The Dog Days of Summer Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, New Artists... New Space, Summer Show 2002 2002 Hilligoss Galleries, Chicago, IL, Oil
Painters of America, Eleventh Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 19th Annual Portrait Show 2001 National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, Arts for the Parks Top 100 Tour Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, Alexandria, VA, Contemporary Realism: A Survey of Washington Area Artists Zantman Art Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, Oil
Painters of America, Tenth Annual National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA,
18th Annual Portrait Show 2000 National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, Arts for the Parks Top 100 Tour Rock Creek Gallery, Washington, DC, Studio 310 Reunion Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 17th Annual Portrait Show Spectrum Gallery, Washington, DC, Spectrum Plus Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Zenith Gallery at 22 1999 National Park Academy of the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY, Arts for the Parks Top 100 Tour, recipient of the Steven L. Aschenbrenner Collector's Award Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, New Works for the Millenium Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 16th Annual Portrait Show Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape 1998 Byrne Gallery, Middleburg, VA, Lightmotifs, solo exhibit Mystic Maritime Gallery, Mystic, CT, 19th Annual International Marine Art Exhibition Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 15th Annual Portrait Show Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape 1997 Arts Club of Washington, Washington DC, Luminous Journeys, solo exhibit Ballantyne & Douglass Fine Art Gallery, Cannon Beach, OR, featured artist The Artists» Museum, Washington, DC Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 14th Annual Portrait Show Morgan Peyton Fine Arts, Charleston, WVA, Journeys through the Virginias, solo exhibit Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit Howard / Mandville Gallery, Edmonds, WA, Paintings of the American Landscape 1996 Howard / Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, Pleasures of the Garden Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Portraits North, Lexington, MA, 13th Annual Portrait Show Howard / Mandville Gallery, Edmonds, WA, 2nd Annual Paintings of the American Landscape Gallery 4, Alexandria, VA, Landscapes Cudahy Gallery, Richmond, VA, 15th Anniversary Celebration Charles County Community College, La Plata, MD, Landscapes, solo exhibit 1995 Cudahy Gallery, Richmond, VA, Landscapes 1994 Hollis Taggart Gallery, Washington, DC, Portraits Montgomery County College, Rockville, MD, George Washington Faculty Exhibit DeMatteis Gallery, Annapolis MD, The Figure Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Portraiture, co-curator 1993 Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit 1992 Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit 1991 Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit 1989 Plum Gallery, Kensington, MD, Capital Image 1989 Cudahy Gallery, Richmond, VA, National Portrait Exhibit Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, faculty exhibit 1988 Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Images of Georgetown, A Bicentennial Celebration 1986 Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, Alumni Juried Exhibition 1985 Gallery 4, Alexandria, VA, Washington Landscapes Plum Gallery, Kensington, MD, The Capitol Image Today 1985 The Times Journal Co., Springfield, VA, In and Around Washington 1984 St. Petersburg Historical Society, St. Petersburg, FL 1984 Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC, Alumni Juried Exhibition Strathmore Hall, Rockville, MD, Metro Art Fairfax County Council of the Arts, Fairfax, VA, juried exhibit curated by Michael Botwinick, director, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC World Bank Art Society, Washington, DC 1983 Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Areawide Painting Exhibition, juried by Frederick Brandt, curator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA American Artists Professional League, New York, NY, Juried Grand National Exhibition Twentieth
Century Gallery, Williamsburg, VA
The Neue or New Pinakothek specializes in famous
painters from Europe of the
18th and 19th
century and its collection of 19th
century masterpieces is one of the finest in the world.
ARTISTS IN IRELAND For biographies and paintings of Irish
painters, sculptors and contemporary artists of the
18th, 19th and 20th
centuries, see: Famous Irish Artists.
Thomas Sautelle Roberts Irish Artist and Romantic Landscape
Painter,
18th / 19th
Century, Biography and Paintings.
PAINTING COLOURS For details of colour pigments used by
18th century English figurative painters, see: Eighteenth Century Colour p
century English figurative
painters, see: Eighteenth
Century Colour p
Century Colour palette.
• Introduction •
18th Century Russian Art Under Elizabeth (1741 - 61) • I.Vishnyakov (1699 - 1761) • Ivan Argunov (c.1727 - 1797) • Anthony Losenko (1731 - 1773) •
18th Century Russian Art Under Catherine the Great (1762 - 96) • British
Painters in Russia • Fedor Rokotov (1735 - 1808) • Dmitri Levitski (1735 - 1822) • Vladimir Borovikovski (1757 - 1825) • Ivan Firsov (1733 - 85) • Architectural Portraiture • Landscape Painting • Simon Shchedrin (1745 - 1804) • Other
18th Century Russian Landscape
Painters • Fedor Alekseev (1753 - 1824)
One of the most prominent Belgian
painters, Michaël Borremans, is well - known for his unique painting technique that dates back to the
18th -
century art and artists such as Édouard Manet and Degas.
The
18th -
century physician and art collector William Hunter was renowned for his dissections — and William Blake satirised him as a butcher, but his appetite for anatomy — was part of an Enlightenment curiosity about nature that also led him to support equine
painter George Stubbs.
The exhibition delves further into the artist's exploration of opacity and transparency with a group of wall pieces that are comprised of hundreds of small convex glass mirrors and polished black onyx cabochons, which specifically makes reference to the Claude glass — an
18th -
century painter's tool that contained a lustrous black mirror made of glass or obsidian used to view tonalities in landscape subjects.
Best Modern
Painters (c.1700 - present) We profile ALL the great
18th century masters of English figurative painting, like William Hogarth and Joshua Reynolds, as well as ALL the main members of the school of English landscape painting including JMW Turner, Constable and Richard Parkes Bonington.
Following the lead of
18th -
century author, philosopher, and artist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and 20th -
century expressionist
painters Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866 - 1944) and Franz Marc (German, 1880 - 1916), Bluemner endowed color with the ability to express aspects of his inner consciousness and to communicate moods and emotions.
Estes admired the early 20th -
century photographer Atget and
18th -
century Venetian vedute (view)
painters such as Canaletto and Bellotto.
On the occasion of Lisson Gallery London's summer exhibition, «A still life by Chardin», Maxwell Graham, founder of Essex Street, New York and organiser of the exhibition, and Chris McCormack, Associate Editor of Art Monthly, discuss the influence of
18th -
Century French
painter Jean - Baptiste - Siméon Chardin on contemporary artists.
One of my favourite artists is the early
18th -
century French
painter Jean - Antoine Watteau, who only ever painted luscious idylls of love and nature.
Irish
Painters (c.1600 - 2008) Famous Irish Artists
18th Century Artists 19th
Century Artists 20th
Century Artists Contemporary Irish Artists
The collection of American art includes works by the great
18th century history
painter John Singleton Copley; the Francophile Mary Cassatt, a leading figure in the American Impressionism movement; the portraitist Gilbert Stuart; the
painter of the cowboy west Frederic Remington; the wonderful 19th
century realists Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins; the post-Impressionist Whistler; the virtuoso society portrait
painter John Singer Sargent; the Pop - Artists Jasper Johns, Edward Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein; co-inventors of «Action - Painting» Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner; and the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko, to name but a few.
FAMOUS AMERICAN
PAINTERS For biographies of some of the best American artists from the
18th and 19th
centuries, see: Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910) Seascapes, Civil War painting.
Other noted American
painters of the
18th century include: the portraitist Ralph Earl (1751 - 1801) and the portrait / history
painter John Trumbull (1756 - 1843).