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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.
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
- Townscape: Covent Garden Market
- see also Canaletto
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
- 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 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
- Making A Mark - Alfred Heaton Cooper and The English Lakes
- Making A Mark - Scottish artists - The Scottish Colourists
- 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
- 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