Painters and sculptors at a glance
| Thomas Gainsborough 1727–88 | A portrait painter who often placed his sitters in country or garden scenery. |
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| David Allan 1744–96 | A Scottish painter, best known for portraits. One famous work is The Origin of Painting. |
| Joseph Turner 1775–1851 | A very influential landscape painter with a modern style. He is credited with making landscape painting more respected. |
| John Constable 1776–1837 | A landscape painter, famous for scenes of Dedham Vale on the border of Suffolk and Essex, in the east of England. |
| The Pre-Raphaelites | A major art movement from the second half of the 19th century. Its painters chose religious or literary subjects and painted them in fine detail and bright colours. Leading members were Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Sir John Millais. |
| Sir John Lavery 1856–1941 | A very successful portrait painter from Northern Ireland. His sitters included the Royal Family. |
| Henry Moore 1898–1986 | An English sculptor, famous for large abstract bronze sculptures. |
| John Petts 1914–91 | A Welsh artist, known for engravings and stained glass. After a church in Birmingham, Alabama, in the USA was bombed in 1963, he designed a stained-glass window for it, paid for by donations from thousands of people in Wales. |
| Lucian Freud 1922–2011 | A British painter born in Germany, known mainly for portraits. |
| David Hockney 1937– | A key figure in the pop art movement of the 1960s, and still influential today. |
