The Art of the Landscape: Britain

Britain

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

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

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