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This page contains links to more information about British Landscape Artists and a timeline index of British Landscape Art.  

More information will be added as the project progresses.

British Landscape Artists

These are links to resource sites about three British Landscape artists

J.M.W. Turner - Resources for Art Lovers
This site is about Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) - aka JMW Turner, one of Britain's greatest painters. It shares information about Turner's art - museums and art galleries, exhibitions and websites where you can see his work, books and articles about his artwork and his life and other resources for artists wanting to improve their knowledge about Turner, his views on art, his techniques and reviews by others of his work.
 

David Hockney - Resources for Art Lovers

David Hockney (1937-present) has been voted the UK's most popular living artist. He's well known for painting the Californian landscape.  Recently he's been painting landscapes in East Yorkshire.  Find out about:

• the life and art of David Hockney
• museums, galleries, exhibitions and websites where you can see his work;
• websites, books and articles about his artwork and his life and
• other resources for artists wanting to improve their knowledge about Hockney, his views on art, his techniques and reviews by others of his work.

Peter Doig - Resources for Art Lovers

Peter Doig is one of Britain's most prominent and exciting young painters. He broke auction records for a living European artist in 2007 when his painting White Canoe sold for $11.7million at Sotheby's.

British Land Artists

Andy Goldsworthy - Resources for Art Lovers 
Find out about Andy Goldsworthy (1956-present) - the British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings.
This site shares information about:
- the art of Andy Goldworthy
- museums and art galleries and exhibitions where you can see his work,
- books and articles about his artwork and
- other resources for artists wanting to improve their knowledge about his work.

A Timeline of UK Landscape Art

Early British Landscape Art

• Portraying the Bristol Channel Floods 1607

Landscape Art and the Townscape in the UK

• Townscape: Covent Garden Market
• see also Canaletto 

Landscape Art and the British Rococo - Richard Wilson and the idealised classical tradition; Thomas Gainsborough and the country house portrait

Landscape Art and British Neoclassicism - George Stubbs and the picturesque setting for animals

Landscape Art and the Influence of the Royal Academy - the influence of Joshua Reynolds

Landscape Art and Canaletto - who had many English patrons, lived in Britain between 1746 and 1755 and influenced a number of English artists

• Canaletto - Painting Britain 
• London Through the Eyes of Foreign Artists
• National Gallery: "Venice - Canaletto and his Rivals"
• Places to paint: Riva degli Schiavoni

Landscape Art and the English Watercolourists - Landscape art in watercolour in the 17th, 18th centuries and 19th centuries- Turner, Cotman, Girtin, Cox, Cozens

• J.M.W. Turner
• Making A Mark - Turner Watercolours with Hockney and Shirley references Turner's travels and the watercolours he made   
• Turner's Sketchbooks: 1790s relate to sketchbooks devoted to specific places - almost all in the UK in this decade
• You too can paint a Turner Sunset...  concerning the volvanic weather in 1815/16
• The Art of the Landscape - Visiting Constable Country about the paintings of the Stour Valley and associated walks/trails 
• Making A Mark - Review: Paul Sandby - Picturing Britain Exhibition at the RA
• Sandby: Portrait of the Whatman Factory in Kent
• Art Instruction: Drawing and Painting Landscapes in Watercolour - written by Francis Nicholson in the early nineteenth century.
  

Landscape Art and the Nazarenes - William Dyce

Landscape Art and the British Romantics - Richard Parkes Bonington, JMW Turner, John Constable

• John Constable documentary - view online

Landscape Art and the Visionaries - Samuel Palmer, John Martin

Landscape Art and the Pre-Raphaelites - William Holman Hunt; Ford Madox Brown

Landscape Art and English Impressionists - Phillip Wilson Steer

Landscape Art and Naieve Painting (early 20th century) - Alfred Wallis

Landscape Art and the Avant Garde (early 20th century) - Graham Sutherland, Paul Nash

Landscape Art and British Regional Painters - LS Lowry, Atkinson Grimshaw, the Heaton Coopers, Eric Ravilious, John Piper

• Making A Mark - Alfred Heaton Cooper and The English Lakes

Landscape Art and the Scottish Colourists - Samuel Peploe

• Making A Mark - Scottish artists - The Scottish Colourists

Twentieth Century British Landscape Art

• Alfred Wainwright's Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells comments on some very popular landscape drawings of the fells of the Lake District
• Places to paint: Paul Nash and the Wittenham Clumps

Contemporary British Landscape Art - Peter Doig, David Prentice, Kurt Jackson, David Hockney, Andy Goldsworthy, David Gentleman

• Pictures of Britain by David Gentleman
• David Hockney - Resources for Art Lovers
  
• Review: David Hockney - A Bigger Picture - about the process of painting landscapes and trees in East Yorkshire
• David Hockney - recent exhibitions - about his landscape paintings of East Yorkshire and painting trees 
• David Hockney's Yorkshire
• David Hockney talks about landscape painting routine
• Videos of David Hockney painting landscapes
• Andy Goldsworthy - Resources for Art Lovers
• Andy Goldsworthy Retrospective at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park 
• Peter Doig's landscapes and painting process
• Pictures of Britain by David Gentleman

Landscape Photography

• Landscape Photographer of the Year 2011