British Painting: The Golden Age

Rating:
Summary: A Absolute Gem
Review: An excellent source for understanding the pictorial achievements of British artists in in the 18th and 19th centuries. The book covers a vaste array of artists and subjects. For this reader, the most important features deal with the social changes due to the industrial revolution; the transformation of landscape painting from the sublime to naturalistic rural countryside, and the contribution of British painting to modernity using effects of light and colour.