"Golding Constable's Flower Garden Golding Constable's Flower Garden is an 1815 painting by John Constable. The work shows the flower garden belonging to Constable's father, Golding Constable, who lived in the Suffolk village of East Bergholt. The painting was donated by the grandson of the pioneering travel agent Ernest Edward Cook, who left his art collection to the Art Fund, which distributed it to nearly a hundred British galleries. It is currently in Christchurch Mansion, which is near East Bergholt. It formed a pair with the painting ""Golding Constable's Vegetable Garden"" and hangs beside it. The two paintings were painted"
"Ursula Tyrwhitt Ursula Tyrwhitt (1872–1966) was a painter and draughtsman who exhibited with the New English Art Club and became a member in 1913. Ursula Tyrwhitt was born in Nazeing, Essex. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1893 to 1894, her work is displayed in The National Library of Wales the Tate Gallery and the British Council. Tyrwhitt was a close friend of Gwen and Augustus Edwin John and is the subject of a 1903 etching by him held by the National Portrait Gallery, London. John also drew a chalk drawing of her with Gwen John"
"Egerton Coghill Sir Egerton Bushe Coghill, 5th Baronet (7 February 1853 – 9 October 1921) was an Irish painter. Coghill was born in Castletownshend, County Cork, the second son of Irish painter Sir John Joscelyn Coghill, 4th Baronet, and his wife the Hon. Katherine Frances, daughter of John Plunket, 3rd Baron Plunket. Victoria Cross recipient Nevill Coghill was his elder brother and Edith Anna Somerville his cousin. He left a career in engineering to pursue one in the arts, studying in Düsseldorf and the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1883-84 he lived at Barbizon near Fontainebleau, then traveled to England"
"by artists such as Paul Nash and Eric Ravilious has been described as reminiscent of Bewick. Hugh Dixon, reflecting on Bewick and the landscape of North-East England, wrote that Thomas Bewick Primary School, in West Denton in Newcastle upon Tyne, is named after him. Bewick's works are held in collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum. Bewick is also memorialised elsewhere around Newcastle city, and Gateshead town, centres. These include streets named after him, and blue (and other) plaques marking former homes and workshops. Notes Citations Thomas Bewick Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) was a"
"George Engleheart George Engleheart (1750–1829) was one of the greatest English painters of portrait miniatures, and a contemporary of Richard Cosway, John Smart, William Wood, and Richard Crosse. Engleheart is generally thought to have been born in Kew, Surrey, on 26 October 1750. His father was Francis Englehart (died 1773), a German plaster modeller who emigrated to England as a child; his mother was Anne Dawney. He had seven brothers. The family name was changed to Engleheart after his father died. He married his first wife, Elizabeth Brown, in 1776; and the couple set up house in Prince’s Street, Hanover"
"events, and made drawings of farming and agricultural subjects, and of archaeological finds. Davy published at Southwold in 1818 and 1827 sets of etchings illustrating the antiquities of Suffolk and the noblemen's seats in the county. He also exhibited three landscape paintings in 1829 in the Suffolk Street exhibition of the Society of British Artists. His works are: Henry Davy Henry Davy (1793–1865) was an English landscape painter, engraver and lithographer active in East Anglia. Davy was born on 30 May 1793 in The Poplars, what is now Birketts Farm, on Westhall Common, near Halesworth, Suffolk. He was the tenth"
"entitled ""A Countryman in Town: Robert Bevan and the Cumberland Market Group"" was held at the Southampton City Art Gallery from 26 September – 14 December 2008 and it moved to Abbot Hall Art Gallery from 13 January – 21 March 2009. More works were seen in an exhibition held at Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, in Suffolk from 4 October to 13 December 2008. The show was entitled ""From Sickert to Gertler: Modern British Art from Boxted House"". Robert Bevan Robert Polhill Bevan (5 August 1865 – 8 July 1925) was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was a founding"
"miniatures still remain in the possession of his descendants. His friends included such notables as George Romney the artist; William Blake the poet, artist and visionary; Jeremiah Meyer, a fellow portrait miniaturist; and William Hayley the poet. George Engleheart George Engleheart (1750–1829) was one of the greatest English painters of portrait miniatures, and a contemporary of Richard Cosway, John Smart, William Wood, and Richard Crosse. Engleheart is generally thought to have been born in Kew, Surrey, on 26 October 1750. His father was Francis Englehart (died 1773), a German plaster modeller who emigrated to England as a child; his mother"
"Bright's paintings at the Norwich Castle Museum. He is also represented at major art galleries in London, Boston and San Francisco. Henry Bright (painter) Henry Bright (5 June 1810 – 21 September 1873), was a distinguished English landscape painter associated with the Norwich School of painters. Henry Bright was born on 5 June 1810 in Saxmundham, Suffolk, the third son of some nine children of Jerome Bright (1770–1846), a clockmaker, and Susannah Denny, of Alburgh in Norfolk, who were married on 28 June 1790. Jerome and Susannah Bright attended services in the Congregational chapel at Rendham, a few miles from"
"Rector of Spexhall in Suffolk during his lifetime, and possibly against his will. Two additional sons, Isaac and Joseph, are buried in Willingale Church, Essex, where their father Bartholomew was rector. Two brass plaques in the chancel, dated 1614, commemorate them with a simple epitaph. Esther Inglis Esther Inglis (1571–1624) was a skilled member of the artisan class, as well as a miniaturist, who possessed several skills in areas such as calligraphy, writing, and embroidering. She was born in 1571 in either London or in Dieppe and was later relocated to Scotland, where she was later raised and married. Sharing"
"Henry Davy Henry Davy (1793–1865) was an English landscape painter, engraver and lithographer active in East Anglia. Davy was born on 30 May 1793 in The Poplars, what is now Birketts Farm, on Westhall Common, near Halesworth, Suffolk. He was the tenth and the youngest child in his family. His father, Thomas Davy, was a farmer. His mother, Sarah, was Thomas's second wife. She was the eldest daughter of William Gibson, surgeon of Carlton Colville and Willingham Hall, Beccles, Suffolk. Early in life Davy was apprenticed to a grocer at Halesworth, but his creative yearnings got the better of him"
"Thomas Beckwith Thomas Beckwith (10 February 1731 – 17 February 1786) was an English painter, genealogist and antiquary. Beckwith was born at Rothwell, West Yorkshire, the son of a West Riding solicitor, and brother of Josiah Beckwith (b. 1734), attorney and antiquary. He was apprenticed as a house-painter to George Fleming of Wakefield, who tutored him in drawing and limning; subsequently Beckwith himself up in business as a painter in York. He painted portraits and also made many drawings of antiques, local churches, ruins etc., some of which were finished in watercolour. Beckwith acquired a great knowledge of heraldry and"
"Yorkshire coast from Hull to Redcar. He died of heart disease on 11 December 1871 in Whitby. Thomas Sutcliffe (artist) Thomas Sutcliffe (1828 – 11 December 1871) was an English watercolour painter. Sutcliffe was born and lived most of his life in the Leeds area, particularly Headingley. He married Sarah Lorentia Button, and they had a large family, including his eldest son, the famous photographer Francis Meadow Sutcliffe. He was self-taught, but was elected to the Institute of Water-Colour Painters and was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy. He was said to excel at landscapes but also painted figures"
"and Thomas Phillips (1770-1845). Also of note are Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745) and his pupil (and defiant son-in-law) Thomas Hudson (1701-1779). Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797) was well known for his candlelight pictures; George Stubbs (1724-1806) and, later, Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) for their animal paintings. By the end of the century, the English swagger portrait was much admired abroad. London's William Blake (1757-1827) produced a diverse and visionary body of work defying straightforward classification; critic Jonathan Jones regards him as ""far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced"". Blake's artist friends included neoclassicist John Flaxman (1755-1826), and Thomas"
"1 September 1881 in Camberwell, Surrey. Challen's niece, Florence Mildred Saltmarsh Challen, was married to the organist and composer Henry Thomas Pringuer. Albert Charles Challen Albert Charles Challen (8 October 1847 – 1 September 1881) was a British artist. He is best known as the painter of a portrait of Mary Seacole in 1869, when she was around 65 years old. The rediscovery of the portrait was announced in January 2005, and it is held by the National Portrait Gallery. Born in Islington, the 1871 UK census shows Challen living in Hammersmith, with his profession given as ""art student (painting)""."
"Rembrandt, Rubens, Piranesi and Durer. His large collection of Greek and Roman coins and other curiosities was also sold. Not known. Thomas Sivright Thomas Sivright (or Sievwright) of Meggetland and Southhouse FRSE FSA(Scot) (1783–1835) was a 19th-century Scottish landowner, art collector and bibliophile. He was born in Meggetland House, west of Edinburgh the eldest son of Thomas Sivright (1739-1813). The large mansionhouse stood south of the junction of Colinton Road and Polwarth Terrace. The huge grounds are now the Meggetland sports fields. The house was lost to a railway line in the 19th century. In 1817 he was elected a"
"John Constable John Constable, (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home – now known as ""Constable Country"" – which he invested with an intensity of affection. ""I should paint my own places best"", he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, ""painting is but another word for feeling"". Constable's most famous paintings include ""Wivenhoe Park"" of 1816, ""Dedham Vale"" of 1802 and ""The Hay Wain"" of 1821. Although his paintings"
"Harry Epworth Allen Harry Epworth Allen (27 November 1894 – 25 March 1958) was an English painter. He was one of the twentieth century's most distinctive interpreters of landscape. H. E. Allen was born at 20, Kirkstall Road, in the Hunter's Bar district of Sheffield, England. The city would remain his home for the rest of his life. His father was Henry Allen, a steel mark maker, and his mother, Elizabeth Epworth Allen (née Blacktin). Epworth was the maiden name of Elizabeth's mother, who was also called Elizabeth. Allen showed remarkable artistic talent from an early age and, in 1902,"
"room with a painting. He also offered magistrates a painting in lieu of a fine when prosecuted for driving with no tax or insurance. A BBC documentary, ""I am Isherwood"" was made in 1974 about the artist and his work. This was transmitted twice by the BBC once in 1974 and again in 1975. Isherwood died on 9 June 1989 of cancer. James Lawrence Isherwood James Lawrence Isherwood (7 April 1917 – 9 June 1989) was an English artist, born in Wigan, Lancashire. Isherwood was a prolific impressionist/expressionist painter. He is known for his Wigan Style and Wigan figure paintings."
"Esqr Keeper of His Majesties Lions in the Tower’. On 25 October 1742 (as a parishioner of St George's, Hanover Square, London) he married Mary Ann Regnier. John Shackleton John Shackleton (? - 14 or 16 March 1767, London) was a British painter and draughtsman who produced history paintings and portraits. His parents and origins are unknown. Shackleton painted several surviving portraits, for example of Henry Pelham (National Portrait Gallery), William Windham (1717–1761; now at Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk), and of John Bristowe, steward to the first duke of Newcastle (now in the Reitlinger Museum of Fine Art, Maidenhead). From 1749"
"Wivenhoe Park (painting) Wivenhoe Park is a painting of an English landscape park, the estate of the Rebow family, by the English Romantic painter, John Constable (1776–1837). John Constable was born in Suffolk, and is known principally for his landscape paintings, especially the landscapes of the countryside where he spent his childhood. His paintings are now considered among the most popular and valuable in British art. The National Gallery of Art holds this painting as one of its highlights:A pleasant sense of ease and harmony pervades this landscape of almost photographic clarity. The large areas of brilliant sunshine and cool"
"they relate to the process of painting, are the best that have hitherto been published"". He did however, find the part on perspective unsatisfactory. A second edition was published in 1773. Thomas Bardwell Thomas Bardwell (1704 - 9 September 1767) was an English portrait and figure painter, art copyist, and writer. Bardwell initially earned his living initially as a painter of decorative panels for his family's business in Bungay, Suffolk. His earliest known portraits are two conversation pieces dated 1736; one, possibly showing the Brewster family of Beccles, is in the collection of the Geffrye Museum. In 1746 he was"
"painter of note, Edward Hull (1781–1851) was thought to be a relative but is now not thought to be. William Hull (artist) William Hull (6 May 1820 – 15 March 1880) was an English watercolour landscape and still-life painter, illustrator and etcher, who exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. He was the brother of Edward Hull, another well known illustrator and painter. Hull was born at Grafham in Huntingdonshire, the son of a small farmer who moved soon after his son's birth to Keysoe, Bedfordshire, and then to the nearby village of Pertenhall. There, in the village school, William"
"in museums or galleries in Portsmouth, Derby and Sheffield. Hofland's painting ""Moonlight"" inspired a poem of Letitia Elizabeth Landon published in The Literary Gazette (1824). Thomas Christopher Hofland Thomas Christopher Hofland (1777–1843) was an English artist and teacher. Hofland was born in Worksop and he became a student of John Rathbone. He started teaching at Kew and moved to Derby in 1805, where he worked until 1808. He became the second husband of the successful writer Barbara Hofland in 1810. Hofland exhibited 72 paintings at the Royal Academy but the main source of their income was his wife's writing. He"
"Henry Bright (painter) Henry Bright (5 June 1810 – 21 September 1873), was a distinguished English landscape painter associated with the Norwich School of painters. Henry Bright was born on 5 June 1810 in Saxmundham, Suffolk, the third son of some nine children of Jerome Bright (1770–1846), a clockmaker, and Susannah Denny, of Alburgh in Norfolk, who were married on 28 June 1790. Jerome and Susannah Bright attended services in the Congregational chapel at Rendham, a few miles from Saxmundham. Bright was apprenticed by his family to a chemist in Woodbridge, Suffolk, but was then transferred to a Norwich chemist,"
"his genial temper made him a great favourite. Egley died in London on 19 March 1870, aged 72. He was twice married, and by his first wife left a son, William Maw Egley, a painter of historical subjects and a regular exhibitor. William Egley William Egley (1798 – 19 March 1870), was an English miniature painter. Egley was born at Doncaster in 1798. Shortly after the boy's birth his father moved to Nottingham, and became confidential agent to the Walkers of Eastwood. The gift of a box of colours which William received in early youth strengthened his desire to be"
"featured on BBC One's ""Antiques Roadshow"". The works, which were executed in egg tempera, were valued at £6,000 - £7,000 each. Harry Epworth Allen Harry Epworth Allen (27 November 1894 – 25 March 1958) was an English painter. He was one of the twentieth century's most distinctive interpreters of landscape. H. E. Allen was born at 20, Kirkstall Road, in the Hunter's Bar district of Sheffield, England. The city would remain his home for the rest of his life. His father was Henry Allen, a steel mark maker, and his mother, Elizabeth Epworth Allen (née Blacktin). Epworth was the maiden"
"Eamon Everall Eamon Everall (born 6 October 1948) is an English artist and educator. He was one of the 12 founder members of the Stuckists art group. He paints in a ""neo-cubist"" style, with subjects from life worked on over a long period. He was born in Aldershot, Hampshire in an army family. He spent his childhood years in the UK, Europe and Asia, and attended 14 schools, including in Germany and the Far East. The last of these were St Edmunds School, Dover, and The Harvey Grammar School, Folkestone, both in Kent, England. He studied art at the now-defunct"
"follow his father's profession but became a languages teacher, lived together in Norfolk. Emma died unmarried in 1880: her brother James Banyard died unmarried aged ninety. James Sillett James Sillett (also written as Sillet or Silleth), (c. 1764–1840) was an English painter, born in Norwich where he spent much of his career. The son of James Sillett of Eye, Suffolk, James Sillett (also known as Sillet or Silleth), was born in Norwich in about 1764. He worked there for a time as an heraldic painter, and so his artistic career began rather as with his contemporaries John Crome and John"
"in Bunhill Fields burial ground. Stothard's painting of ""Erato"" (one of the Muses) is given a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon in her ""Poetical Catalogue of Pictures"", in The Literary Gazette (1823). Another of his paintings ""The Fairy Queen Sleeping"" is poetically examined in a similar fashion in her ""Poetical Sketches of Modern Pictures"" in The Troubadour (1826). Thomas Stothard Thomas Stothard (17 August 1755 – 27 April 1834) was an English painter, illustrator and engraver. Stothard was born in London, the son of a well-to-do innkeeper in Long Acre A delicate child, he was sent at the age"
"his best pictures had passed into the collection of Mr Iceton of Putney (including ""White Walls of Old England"" and ""Hereford Cathedral""), Mr Walter Briggs of Burley in Wharfedale (especially ""Pinner""), and Mr SM Phillips of Wrotham (especially two watercolours of Richmond Bridge). John Buxton Knight John William Buxton Knight (1843 – 2 January 1908), English landscape painter, was born in Sevenoaks, Kent. He started as a schoolmaster, but painting was his hobby, and he subsequently devoted himself to it. In 1861 he had his first picture hung at the Royal Academy. He was essentially an open-air painter, constantly going"
"in art galleries throughout the United Kingdom. They include the National Portrait Gallery, the National Maritime Museum, Tate, Barnstaple Guildhall, Foundling Museum and the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. Thomas Hudson (painter) Thomas Hudson (1701 – 26 January 1779) was an English portrait painter. Hudson was born in Devon in 1701. His exact birthplace is unknown. He studied under Jonathan Richardson in London and against his wishes, married Richardson's daughter at some point before 1725. Hudson was most prolific between 1740 and 1760 and, from 1745 until 1755 was the most successful London portraitist. He had many assistants, and"
"and abstracted art is to be found under every hedge, and in every lane, and therefore nobody thinks it worth picking up"". He could never have imagined how influential his honest techniques would turn out to be. Constable's art inspired not only contemporaries like Géricault and Delacroix, but the Barbizon School, and the French impressionists of the late nineteenth century. See also for those with their own articles. John Constable John Constable, (; 11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings"