194. What famous English and American painters do you know?

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In the department of English Art in the Hermitage you can enjoy some of the masterpieces of the British painters. One of the most famous of them is John Constable - an English Romantic painter who is principally known for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, an area near his house in Suffolk which is now known as «Constable Country». William Turner was a landscape artist whose style can be said to have laid the foundation for Impressionism. William Hogarth is renowned not only for his portraits but also for the series of paintings with satiric details characterizing English high society, in the 1740s. Thomas Gainsborough is one of the most famous portrait and landscape painters of XVIII century Britain. In the National Gallery, London, you can see colorful painting «Mr. and Mrs. Andrews» which is a combination of family portrait and landscape, and dark portrait of «Mr and Mrs William Hallett» (‘The Morning Walk’) that exemplifies Gainsborough's mature style. William Blake is an English poet and painter. His paintings may seem very unusual and fantastic. For example, he depicted Isaac Newton as a divine geometer.