Special Galleries & Collections

Architecture

Painting &

Sculpture

Landscape Design

Classical Forms: Greece & Rome

Sir Godfrey Kneller: Grand State Portraits

Andre Le Notre & Versaille

Neo-Classical Forms: Vitruvius to Palladio

Sir James Thornhill:

Decorative Painter in the School of Verrio and Laguerre

Henry Wise, Royal Gardener: Hampton Court

English Neo-Classicism: Inigo Jones

William Hogarth:

Satiric "Conversation Pieces"  

Transitions: Switzer, et.al

Sir Christopher Wren

Joseph Highmore

Charles Bridgeman, Kent, Brown: Stowe

School of Wren:

Hawksmoor, Vanbrugh, & Gibbs

Arthur Devis

Alexander Pope's Garden and "The Epistle to Burlington"

Neo-Palladians:

Burlington, Campbell, & Kent

Francis Hayman:

Pleasure Gardens of Vauxhall

Henry Hoare and Stourhead

The Woods, Elder & Younger

John Wooten and George Lambert:

Proto-Landscapists

Chinese & Japanese Influences

Robert Adams and Sir William Chambers

Richard Wilson:

"The English Claude"--founder of the English Landscape Tradition

Capability Brown: Longleat

Gothic Revival: Horace Walpole

Thomas Gainsborough

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Sir Joshua Reynolds

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George Romney

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Joseph Wright of Derby

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George Stubbs

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John Singleton Copley & Benjamin West:

Americans in England

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Sir Thomas Lawrence:

Portraiture's Full Flourish

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John Constable &  J.M.W. Turner:

Landscape's Full Flourish

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French Influences

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Italian Influences

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Sculpture: Westminster Abbey:

Scheemakers, Rysbrack, & Roubiliac

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