10 Painting

Painting in England.

Painting in England in the 17^th-19^th centuries is             [represented, portrait, artists, painter]… by a number of great             [represented, artists, portrait, painter]… and during that period it was greatly             [represented, portrait, painter, created]… by foreign painters. The Flemish painter Van Dyck was really the father of English             [represented, painter, portrait, created]… School. The English king personally invited Van Dyck to London and during his first year in England the painter spent most of his time painting the King and the Queen.

Such prominent         [masters, created, genre, painter]… as Reynolds, Gainsborough and Lawrence were influenced by his works. He             [masters, created, influenced, represented]… a         [created, masters, genre, fame]… of aristocratic and intellectual portrait which            [created, genre, influenced, fame]… much the development of English painting. During the 18^th century the national school of painting was created.

William Hogarth was the first great English painter who raised British pictorial art to a high level of importance. He wasn’t successful as a portrait          [masters, painter, genre, portrait]… . But his pictures of social life which he called “modern moral subject” brought him          [genre, painter, fame, portrait]… and position. Among his favourite works are 6 pictures under the title “Marriage a la Mode”.