The History of Modern Painting, Volume 2 (of 4) by Richard Muther

CHAPTER XVII

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ENGLISH PAINTING TO 1850 England little affected by the retrospective tendency of the Continent.--James Barry, James Northcote, Henry Fuseli, William Etty, Benjamin Robert Haydon.--Painting continues on the course taken by Hogarth and Reynolds.--The portrait painters: George Romney, Thomas Lawrence, John Hoppner, William Beechey, John Russell, John Jackson, Henry Raeburn.--Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley paint historical pictures from their own time.--Daniel Maclise.--Animal painting: John Wootton, George Stubbs, George Morland, James Ward, Edwin Landseer.--The painting of _genre_: David Wilkie, W. Collins, Gilbert Stuart Newton, Charles Robert Leslie, W. Mulready, Thomas Webster, W. Frith.--The influence of these _genre_ pictures on the painting of the Continent 53