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The greatest artists in English history

Francis Bacon in the early 1950s (Photo by John Deakin)

A dark, brooding Expressionist focused on man's foibles

Portrait of William Blake (1807) by Thomas Phillips, in the National Portrait Gallery, London (Photo courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery)

The original angsty Goth artist—poet, painter, and Romantic-era bad boy

Self Portrait (1799/1804) of John Constable, at the National Portrait Gallery, London (Photo courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery)

Master of the 19C British landscape

Reflection, a self-portrait (1985) of Lucian Freud (Photo courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London)

A darker, more modern version of Van Gogh

Self Portrait (c. 1758-1759) by Thomas Gainsborough, at the National Gallery, London (Photo by the National Gallery)

Thomas Gainsborough

A Titan of England's early baroque era

The king of the 90s shock artists

A Pop Artist with a playful sensibility

The Painter and his Pug, a 1745 Self-portrait by William Hogarth, at the Tate Britain (Photo by the Tate Britain)

William Hogarth

An English painter in the Flemish mold, depicting wonderful slices of life in early 18C England

Henry Moore in 1975, standing next to his sculpture Working Model for Oval with Points (Photo by Allan Warren)

The foremost sculptor of the middle 20th century

Ben Nicholson c. 1933, at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London (Photo by Paul Laib)

The king of the English Abstract movement

Self-Portrait (c. 1748) by Joshua Reynolds, aged 24, at the National Gallery, London (Photo courtesy of the National Gallery)

Joshua Reynolds

A baroque painter of fussy British portraits set in Renaissance-style scenes

Self Portrait (c. 1799) by J.M.W. Turner, at the Tate Britain (Photo courtesy of the Tate Britain)

An amazing British painter whose work presages the Impressionists

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