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Nicolas de Fer created a new nap in early 1700's.
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Considered to be Jean-Antoine Watteau's last masterpeice, this painting was created as a shop sign for an art dealer.
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This painting from Hogarth is one of the first paintings made of an English stage performance.
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Known for his satirical views of contemporary life, Hogarth first published The Four Times of Day engravings in 1738, based on paintings completed two years earlier.
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Artist William Hogarth was able to depict what he considered to be the consequences of alcoholism in the 1700's and were created to support the Gin Act of 1751.
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Without the invention of the camera, the only way to capture an image was by painting. Allan Ramsay did many portraits including that of known philosopher David Hume.
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This painting by West depicts Venus's love affair with the mortal youth Adonis, as recounted in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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According to tate.org.uk: "The dramatic theme of a lion attacking a horse is one of the most important in Stubbs's art and one which preoccupied him for over thirty years." Stubbs was known for his animal creations through art.
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As stated from khanacamedy.org: "If his role as a teacher was the first avenue to West’s fame, surely his history painting is the second. Of the many he completed, The Death of General Wolfe (1770) is certainly the most celebrated."
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"John Singleton Copley’s dramatic rendering of a shark attacking 14-year-old Brook Watson caused a sensation when it was exhibited at London’s Royal Academy in 1778." (National Gallery of Art)
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"The painting represents the Battle of La Hogue, a crucial naval skirmish of the War of the Grand Alliance in which English and Dutch fleets successfully defeated a large French invasion in May of 1692." - (http://www.wga.hu/html_m/w/west/la_hogue.html)
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Copley paints us a picture of the collapse of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham during a debate.
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Struggling from Crohn's disease, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt would create sculptures from his own head and capture instances of pain. (acidcow.com)
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Henry Fuseli was noted for creating paintings that "emphasis spectacle and sensation rather then the noble themes and moral lessons" (tate.org.uk)
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Henry Raeburn brings minister Robert Walker's skating to life in this 1784 painting. Fairly unknown until the 1940's, The Skating Minister is now one of Scotland's most famous paintings.
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"Joseph Wright, a master of artificial illumination, concealed a hanging lamp behind the curtain, suggesting the source of the beams that cast the youth’s shadow. In contrast to the lamp’s gentle glow, intense sparks and embers leap inside the potter’s fiery furnace." - (nga.gov)
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"David takes the viewer into Marat's private room, making him the witness of the moments immediately after the murder." (wga.hu)
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The Ancient of Days by William Blake was not only one of his most popular pieces of work, but also one his own personal favorites.
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Pity was a painting finished in ink and water color. Taken from Macbeth, "‘pity, like a naked newborn babe / Striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubim horsed / Upon the sightless couriers of the air." (tate.org.uk)
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"The painting, done in 1796, is known as the Lansdowne portrait because it was a gift to the Marquis of Lansdowne, an English supporter of American independence, from Senator and Mrs. William Bingham of Pennsylvania." (http://www.georgewashington.si.edu/portrait/)
