Table of Contents

Part 1 Painting under the Tudors: Henry VIII and the generation of Holbein; Holbein's successors and Hans Eworth; painting in the Elizabethan and Jacobean age. Part 2 Painting under the Stuarts, up the revolution of 1688: the precursors of Van Dyck; the age of Van Dyck and Dobson; the age of Lely. Part 3 The age of Kneller and English baroque: the decorative painters from Verrio to Thornhill; portraiture in the age of Kneller and his immediate successors; marine painting - landscape - other genres. Part 4 Hogarth and the precursors of the classical age: Hogarth (1697-1764); Hogarth's contemporaries; conversation pieces and fancy pictures - Mercier and Hayman; fashionable portraiture to Hudson and Ramsay. Part 5 The classical age: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92); Richard Wilson (1713-82); Thomas Gainsborough; other foundation members of the Royal Academy; the painters of history; Wright of Derby and the painters of romantic literature; sporting painters from Wootton to Stubbs; Romney and fashionable portraiture; Zoffany - theatre genre and later conversation pieces; later landscape in oils - early watercolours; painting in Scotland in the 18th century; portraitists in crayons or pastel.