About British Art
Portraiture, landscape, marine painting, printmaking and decorative design provide different routes into the subject. Artists moved between regional centres and international networks, while changing markets and institutions shaped what they produced. British art should therefore be understood through local as well as national contexts.
Use the separate country and artist pages when a more precise connection is documented. An artist's British nationality does not establish the location of every landscape or the cultural origin of every subject they depicted.
