British Watercolours, 1750 to 1850

by Andrew Wilton

William Blake, John Constable, and Joseph Mallord William Turner are among the ten British watercolorists whose works are analyzed and reproduced in color and black and white

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Andrew Wilton (1942 -) was the first Curator of the Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection at Tate Britain, London, and is the author of many works on the artist, including the standard catalogue of the watercolours.

Reviews

[Tim Murray · Rating 5 out of 5]

I kept hearing about the golden age of British watercolours and I wanted to find out more about it. This book has 326 high quality colour photos of different watercolour paintings from many different artists with almost no words. In short this book does exactly what it says on the front cover, it has many British watercolours from 1750-1880. It's hard to find fault with something labelled so clearly.

On possibly a more helpful note, I was amazed at the variety of the painting styles. Also I keep hearing about how Turner was such a great watercolour painter but I've never really got it before. Looking through this book you see a lot of very good paintings, then when you get to the first Turner you really can't help stopping and being impressed. It seems like everyone was so neat and fussy and then he came along with these amazing, colourful and atmospheric paintings and you can tell why he is so respected.