His major painting of Wellington’s triumph fails and cost him dearly. Equestrian and dog portraits pay the bills, and his painterly oil sketches remain innovative.
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Some innovative sketches and studies, with a series of major commissions including his huge landscape of Gordale Scar that wouldn’t fit.
Largely self-taught, in the early 19th century stood alongside Constable and Turner. Prolific painter of the countryside, with wonderful oil sketches, and farm animals.
Brilliant, painting over 4,000 oil paintings in little more than 15 years, arrested as a French spy, and finally succumbed to bouts of heavy drinking and mounting debts.
Some of the finest landscapes from the Golden Age, and a mystery which was long assumed to be a self-portrait. An influence on Boudin, hence Monet.
His second vast canvas almost brings him to financial and artistic failure, but he recovers.
Full membership of the Royal Academy, a gigantic landscape of the sublime, and several important commissions: the peak of his career.
One of the major figures in British painting in the first half of the 1800s, but usually ignored today. His oil sketches are exceptional.
A precocious painter who became more famous in Britain than in her native France, she liked painting powerful animals like oxen and lions.
His meticulous paintings of farm animals transformed landscape practice, and created a new sub-genre.
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