English Watercolours

Download or read book English Watercolours written by Graham Reynolds and published by Herbert Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an illustrated survey of watercolour painting from 1750 to the present day, including the finest examples of work by Sandby, Cozens, Girtin, Turner, Rowlandson, Cotman, De Wint, Constable, Blake, Palmer, Prout, Rossetti, Whistler and many other famous and not so famous artists, with full notes on each. The author relates the English School to earlier continental artists and sums up the special characteristics and achievements of each artist. He has written twenty books including Victorian Painting, Constable, The Natural Painter and Turner and has won the Mitchell Prize for the History of Art for his catalogue raisonne on The Later Paintings and Drawings of Constable.