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Great British Art: The Pond by LS Lowry

This week in Great British Art we present The Pond by LS Lowry and was painted in 1950. It’s a stunning impression of an industrial landscape in Britain. From the Tate Gallery: “‘The Pond’ is an...

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Great British Art: Our English Coasts, 1852 (‘Strayed Sheep’) by William...

This week in Great British Art, we present Our English Coasts (‘Strayed Sheep’). It was painted by William Holman Hunt in 1852. This painting brilliantly captures English agricultural life. The...

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Great British Art: The Fighting Temeraire by Turner – 1838

This week in Great British Art we present The Fighting Temeraire by Turner. “The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up”, was painted in 1838 and is an oil painting by the English...

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Great British Art: A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery

A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery, or the full title, A Philosopher giving a Lecture on the Orrery in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun, is a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby depicting a...

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Great British Art: Stonehenge as Painted by John Constable in 1835 – Stunning...

John Constable, one of our favorite painters, painted this watercolor at a sad time in his life. Both his wife, Maria, and his closest friend, John Fisher, had died, and his two eldest sons had left...

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Great British Art: Ophelia by John Everett Millais

Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. Currently held in the Tate Britain in London, it depicts Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare’s play...

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Great British Art: Marriage à-la-mode by William Hogarth

Marriage à-la-mode is a series of six pictures painted by William Hogarth between 1743 and 1745 depicting a pointed skewering of upper class 18th century society. This moralistic warning shows the...

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Great British Art: The Emigrant’s Last Sight of Home by Richard Redgrave 1858

As a result of the industrial revolution, there was widespread unemployment in Britain during the 1830s and 1840s, resulting in mass emigration to the British colonies and the United States. A major...

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Great British Art: The Battle of Britain by Paul Nash

  Paul Nash’s description of the painting, written for the War Artist’s Advisory Committee: ‘The painting is an attempt to give the sense of an aerial battle in operation over a wide area and thus...

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Great British Art: The Battle of Trafalgar as Seen from the Mizen Starboard...

Turner made close observation of the ships shown here, but the painting of the battle in which Admiral Nelson died is not simply detailed reportage. Sails and cannon smoke arrest the eye, creating a...

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Great British Art: Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) by John Constable

  Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable’s largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first...

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Great British Art: The Road across the Wolds, 1997 by David Hockney

  The Road across the Wolds is a painting by one of Britain’s greatest living artists – David Hockney. This bright, vivid print depicts the rolling countryside of Hockney’s beloved Yorkshire as it...

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Great British Art: Raby Castle, the Seat of the Earl of Darlington by J. M....

  This is one of Turner’s most successful “house portraits.” Before he painted Romantic subjects drawn from classical, biblical, literary, and contemporary sources, Turner specialized in topographical...

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Great British Art: Wellington at Waterloo by Robert Alexander Hillingford

This week in Great British Art, we present a painting of the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, painted by Robert Alexander Hillingford. It is not currently on public display. The post...

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Great British Art: Ophelia by John William Waterhouse – 1889

Waterhouse depicts Ophelia lying in a riverside meadow in an attitude of deranged abandon, one hand in her tousled hair, the other grasping flowers. The entry in Academy Notes for 1889 reads: “Ophelia...

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Great British Art: The Country Inn by Myles Birket Foster

  A classic watercolor painting of a Country Inn in the English Countryside by Myles Birket Foster. Myles Birket Foster (4 February 1825 – 27 March 1899) was a popular English illustrator, watercolor...

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Great British Art: Manchester from Kersal Moor by William Wyld – A Scene of...

  Queen Victoria had first seen William Wyld’s work in 1843 in the collection of her aunt Louise, Queen of the Belgians, choosing some of these watercolours for her own collection, and Queen Louise...

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Great British Art: Chichester Canal by Joseph Mallord William Turner c.1828

Turner’s first painting of Petworth, a palatial country house and estate inland from Chichester in West Sussex, was made following a visit in 1809. Its owner, the Earl of Egremont, supported...

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Great British Art: A Landscape in Suffolk by Thomas Gainsborough

  The subject of this painting are the landscapes that the young Thomas Gainsborough grew up with in his native suffolk. The Dutch landscape art of the 17th century was an inspiration with its loose...

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Great British Art: Llyn Peris and Dolbadarn Castle in Wales by Landscape...

Serene landscape looking across a wide river towards the rounded turret of Dolbardarn Castle in Llyn Peris, Wales. Silhouetted against a bright sunset sky, the castle stands on the river’s bank...

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