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This site is about really great British Artists in the past and present.  It links to my "resources for art lovers" sites which provide good quality resources and information about notable British artists that I like

These are artists whose work attracts people from miles around plus the ones which have passed the art history test and are still well regarded despite having lived a long time ago.

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  1. Art History - Great British Artists
  2. History of British Art
  3. Art History - Great British Botanical Artists
  4. 13 British Artists Children Should Know
  5. Contemporary British painters
  6. Contemporary British sculptors and land artists
  7. Other Great Artists
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  12. Thomas Gainsborough (British Artists)
  13. Amazon Spotlight Personal Review
  14. The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement

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Art History - Great British Artists

Great British Artists from the past

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William Hogarth (British Artists)

(Publisher's Description) This fresh and engaging perspective of William Hogarth (1697-1764) reveals him as a figure who reinvented the very idea of what it is to be an artist. Hogarth was the first artist to make his living as a humorist, brilliantly inventing a means of reproducing a wit for wide public consumption. He adapted literary satire as a graphic art form and invented the serial print. In his portraits, his representation of human character and its passions broke new ground, as did his depiction of disease and its effects on the body. His sympathy with the human predicament and natural tendency for philanthropy also surfaced in his art.
William Hogarth (British Artists)

William Hogarth (British Artists)

by: Matthew Craske

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Release Date: 12/31/1969

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History of British Art

Andrew Graham-Dixon

Andrew Graham Dixon has written a study British art from the Reformation to the present (originally linked to a BBC2 television series). As he considers the works of artists as disparate as Stubbs and Bacon, Hogarth and Hockney, Constable and Henry Moore, the author depicts the cultural life of Britain since the Middle Ages which embraces not only painting and sculpture but also history, politics, architecture and literature.
History of British Art

History of British Art

by: Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Art History - Great British Botanical Artists

Great British Botanical and Natural History Artists from the past

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50 British Artists You Should Know

by Lucinda Hawkesley

This roll-call of British artists confirms the dominance and excellence of British art across five centuries, from Blake to Banksy, Turner to Tracey Emin. This highly readable and informative collection of the best of British art showcases magnificent portraits by Thomas Gainsborough and Stanley Spencer; landscapes by J. M. W. Turner and David Hockney; satire by William Hogarth and Gilbert & George; sculpture by Henry Moore and Rachel Whiteread; and the latest works by Grayson Perry and Damien Hirst. Each artist is presented in a double-page spread that features a major work, details from the work, a brief biography and fascinating insights into the artist's life and times.
50 British Artists You Should Know

50 British Artists You Should Know

by: Lucinda Hawksley

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13 British Artists Children Should Know

by Alison Baverstock

This lively introduction to nearly four centuries of British art offers children a strong foundation for learning in a playful and imaginative way, and will inspire them to dream, create, and think
13 British Artists Children Should Know

13 British Artists Children Should Know

by: Alison Baverstock

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Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Vol. II M-Z

(Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Up to 1920)

This Dictionary covers the work of some six thousand British watercolour artists. It includes the less well known artists, both professional and amateur, as well as to the great artists, such as Turner, Girtin and Cotman. Much of the information is purely biographical and factual, however the author also add his own personal judgements of the artists' works and styles. Huon Mallalieu spent four and a half years at Christie's, mainly in the watercolour department.
Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Vol. II M-Z (Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Up to 1920)

Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Vol. II M-Z (Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Up to 1920)

by: Huon Mallalieu

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Contemporary British painters

Contemporary British Artists and Painters

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Stanley Spencer (British Artists series)

by Kitty Hauser

Stanley Spencer is one of the most highly regarded and best-loved of all twentieth-century British Artists.
Stanley Spencer (British Artists series) (British Artists)

Stanley Spencer (British Artists series) (British Artists)

by: Kitty Hauser

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Francis Bacon (British Artists)

(Publisher's Description) Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is often said to have "put the pain in painting." His subversion of artistic conventions and religious symbols created a sensation during his lifetime. Even after his death, his paintings of distorted figures and fractured spaces continue to ignite controversy. To some, Bacon's imagery is a profound interpretation of the tragic human condition; others declare it violent and disgusting. This book examines the way Bacon's paintings were made, with reference to his life and words, revealing the strong influence of literary modernism. In particular, Bacon's rhetoric draws from the despair and guilt expressed by Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound.
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Jacob Epstein (British Artists)

by Richard Cork

This volume of the British Artists series examines Jacob Epstein, a pioneer of modern sculpture in Britain; yet he aroused hostility throughout his career and always felt an outsider in his adopted country.
Jacob Epstein (British Artists)

Jacob Epstein (British Artists)

by: Richard Cork

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Contemporary British sculptors and land artists

Contemporary British sculptors and land artists

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Thomas Gainsborough (British Artists)

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by: Martin Postle

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The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement

(The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)

This is the first authoritative survey of the radically innovative decade of the 1860s. The book explores new developments in English painting of this period, focusing on the early work of Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter, Simeon Solomon, and James McNeill Whistler, as well as on paintings by Frederick Sandys and the older G. F. Watts, and by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Pre-Raphaelite colleagues Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.
The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art the Paul Mello)

The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art the Paul Mello)

by: Allen Staley

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