British Culture - fameous names

Isaac Newton

one of the most important sciencists in history, he was also a matematician, he’s well known for inventing the calculus, and formulating the theory of gravity and laws of motion

William Hogarth

18 century, first great english born painter to attract the admiration abroad, he was also a engraver, he’s best known for mordern moral, engravings and paitings

William Turner

romantic landscape painter, the master of sublime, he was the great master of british watercolour landscape painting, he was also known as the painter of light because of his use of brilliant colours as the main element of his landscapes and seascapes

Guy Fawkes

Gunpowder plot 1605, he and fellow Catholic conspirators attemted to glow up Parliament and assassinate King James I of England

Francis Bacon

he was english philosopher and statesman, author of 4 idols of misjudgement, the father of empiricism, he’s known for his scientific method called the bacon method

Christopher Wren

was the designer, architect, astronomer and mathematican, he designed 52 london churches including st. paul’s cathedral. he also designed the monument to great fire of london, the founder member or Roylal society

William Blake

was poet painter and printmaker, largely unrecognished during his lifetime but now he’s seminal figure in the history od poetry and visual arts of romance age. among his known lyrics are THE LAMB and LONDON, he’s also an author of the book called SONGS OF

Hans Holbein

one of the most accomplished German painter, draftsmaker and designer, he’s known for realism in his poitraits - paiting of Henry VIII. he painted the royal court

Robert Hooke

a physicits who discovered the law of elasticity known as HOOKE’S LAW he did a research in remarkable variety of fields. he’s the first one to view cella under the microscope, he was a polymath, so basically a renaissance man

Thomas Chippendale

one of the leading cabinetmaker of 18th century in england, also a furniture designer in the English Rococo and Neoclassical styles

Thomas Gainsborough

portrait and landscape painter, the most catcholic painter of the 18th century, his landscapes are of idyllic scenes (extremly pleasant, simple and peaceful)

Joshua Reynolds

english painter specialised in portraits., he promoted grand style in painting (idealization)

Joshep Wright

the best European painter of artificial light of his day, his scenes lit by moonlight or candlelight combine the realism and romanticsm

James Watt

a british inventor who made gresg improvements to the STEAM ENGINE

John Constable

major figure in english landscapr painting in the early 19th century, he is best known for his paitings of english countryside

Edmund Burke

british statesman, he championed conservatism in opposition to Jackobinism in Reflections on the revolution in france

William Morris

english designer, poet and early socialist designed for furniture, fabrics, wallpaper and other decorative arts. Arts and Crafts movement in england revolutionized Victorian Taste

Daniel Gabriel Rossetti

English painter and poets who helped found the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood -a group of English painters, treating religious morale, and medieval subjects in a nonacademic manner

King Alfred

king of Wessex died 899 he prevented england from falling and promoted learning and literacy, he built a navy

st Augustine

his written works shape the practice of biblical exegesis and help lie the foundation for much of medieval and modern christian thought