ENGLISH PAINTERS

BY H. J. WILMOT-BUXTON, M.A.
WITH A CHAPTER ON
AMERICAN PAINTERS
BY S. R. KOEHLER

PREFACE.

THIS brief sketch of the rise and progress of Painting in England has been drawn from a variety of sources. The little that can be traced of artistic work previous to the end of the fifteenth century does not fill many pages. Ignorance, carelessness, and "iconoclastic rage" all contributed to the defacement of paintings which we have every reason to believe at one time abounded in our churches and public buildings, as they did at the same period in Italy; and there is good evidence that some of our early English artists are not to be despised.

Our forefathers were too much engaged in the rough contests of war to care much for the arts of peace. In the sixteenth century several foreign artists of more or less celebrity were induced to visit and stay in England. Foremost of these was Holbein, and to his example English artists are deeply indebted. In the next century there were a few excellent miniature painters, whose work is not to be surpassed at the present day, and then came a succession of foreigners—Rubens and Van Dyck from Flanders, Lely and Kneller from Germany, and a host of lesser men, who seem to have in a great measure monopolized portrait painting—then in vogue among the nobility—for more than a hundred years.

Early in the eighteenth century came Hogarth, followed by Reynolds, Gainsborough and Romney, and from that time to the present, Art has year by year progressed, till now English Painters have become a recognised power in the state, and contribute, in no small degree, to the enlightenment, pleasure and refinement of the age.

H.J.W.-B.

November, 1882.

CONTENTS.

[PAINTING IN ENGLAND].
[I.]
PAGE
Early English Art[1]
[II.]
English Art in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries[9]
[III.]
English Art in the Eighteenth Century—William Hogarth[36]
[IV.]
The Royal Academy and its influence[44]
[V.]
The Progress of English Art in the Eighteenth Century[60]
[VI.]
Book Illustrators—Miniature Painters[85]
[VII.]
Painters in Water Colours[100]
[VIII.]
English Art in the Nineteenth Century—Sir Thomas Lawrence
and his contemporaries		[116]
[IX.]
Landscape Painters[127]
[X.]
Historic Painters[148]
[XI.]
Subject Painters[163]
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[PAINTING IN AMERICA].
[Introduction][187]
[First, or Colonial Period][190]
[Second, or Revolutionary Period][195]
[Third Period, or Period of Inner Development][201]
[Fourth, or Present Period][217]
[INDEX OF NAMES][223]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[1].The Valley Farm Constable Frontispiece
PAGE
[2].Age of Innocence Reynolds[xiv]
[3].From St. Ethelwold's Benedictional Godeman[3]
[4].Arthur, Prince of Wales (Miniature) [7]
[5].Henry, Prince of Wales (Miniature) [10]
[6].Nicolas Kratzer Holbein[12]
[7].Edward, Prince of Wales (Miniature) Holbein[14]
[8].A Dutch Gentleman More[18]
[9].Countess of Pembroke Hilliard(?)[21]
[10].Sir Philip Sidney (Miniature) Isaac Oliver[23]
[11].James I. (Miniature) Hoskins[24]
[12].Countess of Devonshire Van Dyck[27]
[13].Oliver Cromwell Lely[29]
[14].Grinling Gibbons Kneller[33]
[15].William Hogarth and his Dog Trump Hogarth[39]
[16].Morning Wilson[49]
[17].Mrs. Bradyll Reynolds[53]
[18].Mrs. Siddons Gainsborough[57]
[19].Titania and Bottom Fuseli[63]
[20].Death of Wolfe West[65]
[21].Death of Major Peirson Copley[68]
[22].Mercury inventing the Lyre Barry[70]
[23].Marquis of Stafford Romney[73]
[24].Charity Northcote[77]
[25].The Watering-Place Morland[82]
[26].From Dante's Inferno Blake[86]
[27].The Dream Stothard[88]
[28].The Portrait Smirke[90]
[29].The Woodcock Bewick[92]
[30].Tail-piece Bewick[93]
[31].Morning Walk Chalon[98]
[32].Evening Turner[106]
[33].The Tomb of the Scaligers at Verona Prout[109]
[34].Berncastle, on the Moselle Harding[111]
[35].The View from Richmond Hill De Wint[113]
[36].Old English Hospitality Cattermole[115]
[37].Master Lambton Lawrence[118]
[38].Trial of Queen Catherine Harlow[122]
[39].Swiss Peasant Girl Howard[124]
[40].The Grand Canal, Venice Turner[128]
[41].Trent in Tyrol Callcott[132]
[42].The Fisherman's Departure Collins[134]
[43].St. Gomer, Brussels Roberts[136]
[44].Francis I. and his Sister Bonington[138]
[45].Belshazzar's Feast Martin[140]
[46].Terminati Marina Stanfield[144]
[47].The Pleasant Way Home Creswick[146]
[48].The Rape of Europa Hilton[149]
[49].The Dangerous Playmate Etty[153]
[50].Greek Fugitives Eastlake[155]
[51].Joash shooting the Arrows of Deliverance Dyce[157]
[52].Harold presents himself to Edward the Confessor Maclise[159]
[53].The Maid of Saragossa Wilkie[165]
[54].Choosing the Wedding Gown Mulready[168]
[55].Sancho Panza and the Duchess Leslie[171]
[56].Captain Macheath Newton[174]
[57].Peace Landseer[177]
[58].The Arab Scribe Lewis[181]
[59].Our Village Walker[183]
[60].Death on the Pale Horse West[194]
[61].General Knox Stuart[196]
[62].Death of Montgomery in the Attack of Quebec Trumbull[198]
[63].Jeremiah and the Scribe Allston[203]
[64].A Surprise Mount[210]
[65].Desolation Cole[214]
[66].Noon by the Sea-Shore—Beverly Beach Kensett[216]
[67].Sunset on the Hudson Gifford[218]
[68].Lambs on the Mountain-side Hunt[220]

PAINTING IN ENGLAND.
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BY H. J. WILMOT-BUXTON.