
Fashions in Painting

David Garrick with his Wife Eva-Maria Veigel ©
In the eighteenth century, England made its name as a centre for the manufacture of luxury goods. Yet for the most prestigious art forms – painting and music – the fashionable elite still relied upon talent imported from the Continent. German and Italian composers and singers dominated the London opera houses. Venetian artists brought decorative figure painting and some of the greatest topographical landscapes ever painted in England. The French threatened to make inroads into the lucrative portrait market. English artists, like Wootton and Hogarth, had to struggle to close the ‘skills gap’.
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723)
George II (1683-1760) when Prince of Wales
Barthélemy du Pan (1712-63)
The Children of Frederick, Prince of Wales
Antoine Pesne (1683-1757)
Frederick II, King of Prussia (1712-86)
Jacopo Amigoni (1682-1752)
Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-51)
William Hogarth (1697-1764)
David Garrick with his Wife Eva-Maria Veigel
John Wootton (c. 1682-1764)
The Death of the Stag
John Vanderbank (1694-1739)
George I (1660-1727)
John Wootton (c. 1682-1764)
The Return from the Chase
Marcellus Laroon the Younger (1679-1772)
A Musical Tea Party
Thomas Hudson (1701-79)
George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)
Attributed to British School, 18th century
St James's Park and the Mall
Philippe Mercier (1689-1760)
'The Music Party': Frederick, Prince of Wales with his Three Eldest Sisters
Marcellus Laroon the Younger (1679-1772)