English Watercolors: An Introduction by Graham Reynolds

By Graham Reynolds

Историческая панорама британского искусства акварели от 18 века до современности. Graham Reynolds, previously Keeper of work and of Prints and Drawings on the Victoria & Albert Museum, discusses the work of over a hundred artists together with the well known watercolorists comparable to Cozens, Girtin, Cotman and De Wint, in addition to artists who're both recognized for his or her paintings in different media - Gainsborough, Turner, Constable, Sargent, Henry Moore. The one hundred forty illustrations exhibit the paintings of those and lesser-known artists.

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Sir Joshua Rey nold s, whose visit to Italy dales from ' 749, and Richard Wilson. who followed in '750, were two of the earliest cightccnth--century English art ists to sct out for Italy in search of self-improvement. Even so, few watercolour draughtsmen at this time made the journey on their own initiative. Most of those who did go weill as draughtsmen in the retinue of some wealthy man making the Grand Tour or as the emissary of an antiquarian society. One of the earliest and one of the best was J .

Other al'lists selected more elevated themes which might profit from the veneration felt for the higher ranges of art in academic circles. Samuel Shelley is now remembered only as a miniature painter of slightly lesser renown than Richard Cosway; however, a s ubstantial proportion of his exh ibits at the Royal Academy were 'fa ncy figure subjects' in wa tercolour. ' Wallz. us A uiewof Rome taken from the Pinc;o THli ORIGINS 01- liNGLISI-l WATFRCOLOUR PAINTING 23 John ' Warwick' Smilh Stonework in the Colosseum 37 ENGLISH WATERCOLOURS 33 Sam u e l Hie ronymus G rimm Mother Ludlam's Hole, 'lear Farnham, Surrt"y sketchbooks with designs illustrating a wide range of literature including Homer, Anacreon, Tasso, Goldsmith, and Goet he.

Samuel Shelley is now remembered only as a miniature painter of slightly lesser renown than Richard Cosway; however, a s ubstantial proportion of his exh ibits at the Royal Academy were 'fa ncy figure subjects' in wa tercolour. ' Wallz. us A uiewof Rome taken from the Pinc;o THli ORIGINS 01- liNGLISI-l WATFRCOLOUR PAINTING 23 John ' Warwick' Smilh Stonework in the Colosseum 37 ENGLISH WATERCOLOURS 33 Sam u e l Hie ronymus G rimm Mother Ludlam's Hole, 'lear Farnham, Surrt"y sketchbooks with designs illustrating a wide range of literature including Homer, Anacreon, Tasso, Goldsmith, and Goet he.

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