* Richard Wilson (1 August 1714 – 15 May 1782) was a Welsh landscape painter and one of the founder members in 1768 of the Royal Academy. Wilson has been described as '...the most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country.' He is considered the father of British landscape painting. River Scene with Castle, , by Richard Wilson (V&A Museum no. 246&:1-1876) Lake Avernus I, by Richard Wilson, 1765

* George Stubbs belongs to the artists whose names are re- discovered in the 20th century. At his time he was known only to a narrow circle of aristocratic sportsmen and horse lovers, for his contemporaries he was a mere horse-painter. A broadened critical view of the 20th century revealed the full extent of his achievement, his innovations and exceptional originality and power. His works are still mostly, with some exceptions, in private collections in the houses for which they were executed. This, of course, restricts the number of his admirers. But his reassessment has lifted him to the level of the greatest of his time. A self portrait by George Stubbs Mares and Foals in a Landscap e

* Thomas Gainsborough (christened 14 May 1727 – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter. * In 1769, he became a founding member of the Royal Academy, but his relationship with the organization was thorny and he sometimes withdrew his work from exhibition. Gainsborough moved to London in 1774, and painted portraits of the King and Queen, but the King was obliged to name as royal painter Gainsborough's rival Joshua Reynolds. * In his last years, Gainsborough painted relatively simple landscapes and is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th century British landscape school. Self-portrait (1759) River Landscape (1768–1770) Landscape in Suffolk (1748)

* William Hodges * William Hodges RA (28 October 1744 – 6 March 1797) was an English painter.[1] He was a member of James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, and the Antarctic. A View of Cape Stephens in Cook's Straits New Zealand with Waterspout, 1776 A View of the Fort of Gwalior from the North West

* John Crome (December 22, 1768 – April 22, 1821) was an English landscape artist of the Romantic era, one of the principal artists of the "Norwich school". He is known as Old Crome to distinguish him from his son, John Berney Crome, who was also a well-known artist. Mousehold Heath, Norwich,

* Thomas Girtin (18 February 1775 – 9 November 1802) was an English painter and etcher. A friend and rival of J. M. W. Turner, Girtin played a key role in establishing watercolour as a reputable art form. Jedburgh Abbey from the River ( , watercolour on paper) The White House at Chelsea (1800, watercolour on paper), “Girtin's most celebrated work, was much admired by Turner”.

* Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light" and his work is regarded as a Romantic preface to Impressionism. Drawing of St John's Church, Margate by Turner from around 1786, when he would have been 11 or 12 years old. The ambitious but unsure drawing shows an early struggle with perspective, which can be contrasted with his later work One of Turner's most successful "house portraits." The Walters Art Museum.

* John Sell Cotman (16 May 1782 – 24 July 1842) was an English marine and landscape painter, etcher, illustrator and author, a leading member of the Norwich school of artists. * Cotman worked in oils, watercolour, pencil and chalk, as well as producing many hundreds of etchings.His work can be found in the UK at the Castle Museum and Art Gallery in Norwich (well over 2000 pieces), Tate Gallery, British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, City Art Gallery in Leeds and other regional centers. In the USA, Cotman is represented at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut and other galleries around the country. Greta Bridge (watercolour, 1805) Etretat, Normandy (watercolour c1817)

* Francis Danby (16 November 1793 – 9 February 1861) was an Irish painter of the Romantic era. His imaginative, dramatic landscapes were comparable to those of John Martin. Danby initially developed his imaginative style while he was the central figure in a group of artists who have come to be known as the Bristol School. His period of greatest success was in London in the 1820s. The Shipwreck, oil on canvas, View of the Avon Gorge, oil on panel, The Deluge, oil on canvas, 1840.