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Sophisticated Europeans from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries deemed “history painting” to be the supreme achievement in the visual arts. In addition to imaginatively re-creating actual events from the past, history paintings also illustrated heroic or moralizing episodes from religion, mythology, and literature.
Most of these paintings are richly and deliberately symbolic, and were conceived to express ideas about the American Revolution rather than reproduce what a contemporary spectator might have seen.
This list of ten great Revolutionary War paintings—highlighting works in both American and European collections—follows the course of the war through dramatic and compelling scenes of struggle, violence and triumph that illuminate the vast scope of this world-wide conflict. June 1775.
View all British paintings. The history of British painting is intimately linked with the broader traditions of European painting. Kings and queens commissioned portraits from German, Dutch, and Flemish artists.
This list of important artists associated with England (mainly London) during the 18th and 19th centuries, features the two major fine arts traditions of English Figurative Painting and English Landscape Painting. The first of these includes portraitists, genre painters, artists specializing in drawings from the nude, as well as exponents of ...
Discover 30 created between 1780 and 1789 and explore the full timeline of art history by era, century, and decade.
The collection of Dutch seventeenth-century paintings in the National Gallery of Art includes works by well-known masters of the period, including Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Frans Hals, and Aelbert Cuyp.
