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Jacques Louis David,
Marat Assassine (1793) |
Jacques Louis David,
Les Licteurs Rapportent a Brutus Les Corps de Ses Fils (1789) |
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William Blake
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John Constable
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Biographical Info
Born: 1776
Died: 1837
British Landscape artist
Just as his contemporary William Wordsworth rejected
what he called the `poetic diction' of his predecessors, so Constable turned away from the pictorial conventions of 18th-century landscape
painters, who, he said, were always `running after pictures and seeking the truth at second hand'. Constable thought that `No two days are
alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world', and in a then new way he
represented in paint the atmospheric effects of changing light in the open air, the movement of clouds across the sky, and his excited
delight at these phenomena, stemming from a profound love of the country: `The sound of water escaping from mill dams, willows, old
rotten planks, slimy posts and brickwork, I love such things. These scenes made me a painter.' (Web Museum, Paris)
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Brighton Beach, (50 Kb); Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Tree Trunks, (80 Kb); Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
 The Lock at Dedham, 1824 (40 K) |
The Leaping Horse, 1825 (90 Kb); sketch; Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Chain Pier, Brighton, 1827 (170 Kb); Oil on canvas, 127 x 183 cm (50 x 72 in) |
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Eugene Delacroix
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Biographical Info
Born: 1798
Died: 1863
French painter
Noted for use of color which influenced later impressionism movement
Was influenced by English painter John Constable and English poet Lord Byron
Illustrated a French edition of Goethe's Faust
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Major Works
La Libert� Guidant Le Peuple, (90 Kb); Painted on 28 July 1830, to commemorate the July Revolution that had just brought Louis-Philippe
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The Barque of Dante, 1822 (150 Kb); Oil on canvas, 189 x 242 cm (74 1/2 x 95 1/4"); Musee du Louvre, Paris |
Combat of Giaour and Hassan, 1826 (80 Kb); Oil on canvas; Art Institute of Chicago |
The Death of Sardanapal , 1827 (130 Kb); Oil on canvas, 392 x 496 cm; Musee du Louvre, Paris |
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Henry Fuseli
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Biographical Info
Born: 1741
Died: 1825
Swiss born painter, draughtsman, and writer on art
Writings include:
Lectures on Painting (1801)
Translation of Winckelmann's Reflections on the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks (1765)
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Major Works
Lady Macbeth, 1784 (30 Kb); Oil on canvas; Louvre |
Macbeth and the Witches, (20 Kb); Oil on canvas; Petworth House at Sussex, England |
Perseus Returning the Eye of the Graii, (60 Kb); Pen; City Art Gallery at Birmingham, England |
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
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Biographical Info
Born: 1775
Died: 1851
One of the founders of English watercolor landscape painting
Instead of merely recording factually what he saw, Turner translated scenes into a light-filled expression of his own romantic feelings. (Web Museum, Paris)
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Landscape with Distant River and Bay, Oil on canvas (100 Kb), 94 x 124 cm (37 x 49"); Musee du Louvre, Paris |
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Snowstorm, 1842 (220 Kb); Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 122 cm (36 x 48 in) |
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Rain, Steam, and Speed: The Great Western Railway, 1844 |
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George Walker
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Biographical Info
Born: 1781
Died: 1856
English Painter
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Wensley Dale Knitters, (1814) |
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Middleton Colliery, (1814)
First ever painting of a locomotive |
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The Lock at Dedham, 1824 (40 K)
