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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

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) - aka JMW Turner - was one of Britain's greatest painters. 

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.  

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 (1956-present) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings.


    A Timeline of UK Landscape Art

    Early British Landscape Art

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

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

    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
    Landscape Art and the Scottish Colourists - Samuel Peploe
    Twentieth Century British Landscape Art
    Contemporary British Landscape Art - Peter Doig, David Prentice, Kurt Jackson, David Hockney, Andy Goldsworthy, David Gentleman