John Martin
1789
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1854
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
movement: Romanticism
genre: landscape art, religious painting
country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Great Britain, United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
occupation: painter, engraver, illustrator, artist, graphic artist, etcher, printmaker, watercolorist, landscape painter, history painter, writer, architect
John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) was an English painter, engraver, and illustrator. He was celebrated for his typically vast and dramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, populated with minute figures placed in imposing landscapes. Martin's paintings, and the prints made from them, enjoyed great success with the general public, with Thomas Lawrence referring to him as "the most popular painter of his day". He was also lambasted by John Ruskin and other critics. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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