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Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough was an English painter, and considered to be one of the great masters of landscape painting and portraiture. He was very popular with the British aristocracy. He was one of the founders of the Royal Academy. Thomas also had a tendency to work from his observations of nature. -
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William Blake
Blake was known for many things. He the first of the great English Romantic poets, as well as a painter and printer and one of the greatest engravers in English history. Most of Blake's paintings are actually prints made from copper plates. He and his wife colored these prints with water colors. Some of his famous works are "The Ancient of Days", "The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve", and "The Web of Religion". -
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Regarded by many as the most influential composer of all time. Beethoven was a German composer who composed his most well-known work, Symphony Number 5, during the Romantic period. -
Samual Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge was a leader of the Romantic movement. Coleridge and Wordsworth collaborated on a volume of poetry titled Lyrical Ballads. The collection is considered the first great work of the Romantic school of poetry and contains Coleridge's famous poem, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." -
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
He was also known as "the Painter of light". He is known as one of the, if not the, most important British painters ever. His work had a direct influence on the development of impressionism. He went through three phases of art throughout his life, He is renowned for his dramatic and vibrant treatment of natural light, atmosphere, and brilliant colors. And he was also one of the founders of water color. -
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John Constable
He was a British Landscape artist. His two most famous paintings are Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821. Dedham Vale was a painting of the area around his house, called "Constable Country". Even though he is now an extremely famous for his works, he was never financially stable. He wasn’t inducted into the Royal Academy until the age of 52. -
William Blake
Williams first printed works, Poetical Sketches (1783) is a collection of classical models. His most popular collection, Songs of Innocence in 1789. All of his illustrations were used with water colors. -
The Ancient of Days
It shows his out-stretched hand holds a compass over the darker void below. The design was "a singular favourite with Blake and as one it was always a happiness to him to copy." Today there are many versions of the work. -
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Chereodramas
Chereodramas were dramas that invoked realism into ballet. These were popular in Britain, and were usually attended by the weathly. The music played duringt the ballet usually set the tone or mood of the show. -
Peace of Amiens
Britain and France sign the Peace of Amiens recognizing Britains conquest of French, Dutch, and Spanish colonies. It temporarily ended hostility throughout the French Revolutionary War. -
John Dolton
English chemist John Dolton proposes the matter was composed of atoms. He is the Father of the Modern Atomic Theory. Dolton also headed research in color-blindness in 1822. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte declares himself the leader of France. He begins his campaign to stretch east and take over Russia. After successfully expanding his empire he falls at the Battle of Waterloo. -
Slave Trade Ends
Britain outlaws the slave trade in 1807. The act abolished the trade of slaves, not specifically slavery. This act held until 1833 when slavery as a whole was abolished. This would change the economic basis of England as Triangular Trade with America and Africa was coming to a close. -
Beethoven composes Symphony Number 5
One of the most popular and well-known pieces of music ever written. Symphony number 5 was composed by Beethoven and was written in C minor. Experts believe that Beethoven was symbolizing fate, knocking at the doorm, due to the nature in which the Symphony is written. -
War of 1812
The British Empire infringed upon the trading and shipping rights of the United States of America. The war ended in a stalemate, but it ultimately established clear American independence. -
Lord Bryon
His full name is George Gordon Byron, born in 1788. He was a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Some of his best works are She Walks in Beauty, in addition to the narrative poems Chile Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest poets and remains widely read and influential. -
John Keats
Keats met Leigh Hunt, and editor of the Examinor, who published his sonnets "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and "O Solitude". His first volume of poems was called Poems by John Keats, published in 1817. He published his third and best volume of poetry in 1820. Some of the names are Lamia, Isabella, and The Eve of St. Agnes -
The harmonica was invented by Friedrich Buschmann
The majority of Romantic music was played on expensive instruments such as the piano or the violin. This invention by the German clock-maker, Friedrich Buschmann, allowed the Biritish poor to purchase musical instruments for the first time. This gave them a connection to music, an interest perviously reserved for the wealthy. -
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria becomes the Queen of England. Victoria reigned longer than any monarch in history at 63 years and 7 months. The years of her reign were named collectively the Victorian era. -
Saxophone Patented
Adolphe Sax patented his Saxophone, which is most commonly used in Jazz. Sax was a Belgian musician. The Saxophone sparked the British Brass Band movement in Britian during the Romantic Era. -
Williams Wordsworth
William and Samual Taylor Coleridge helped start the era of the Romantic age in literature. Williams most famous works, The Prelude, is considered by many the crowning achievement of English Romanticism.
