British Art

5. Wedgwood hoped to monopolise the aristocratic market and thus win for his wares a special social _____ (=prestige) that would filter to all classes of society.
6. Gainsborough’s landscapes were often painted at night by candlelight, using a tabletop arrangement of stones, pieces of mirrors, broccoli, and the _____ as a model.
7. Morland learned to profit off his own art by hiding some of the paintings and lowering them out of a window to his _____s. (=people who helped him to commit this crime)
8. Reynolds’ _____ of classical influence, moral vision, and technical skill elevated painting from a craft into an intellectual (4)_____. (=something that you give your time and energy to)

1. This famous naturalist was Wedgwood’s grandson.
2. For over a month the fashionable world _____ed the rooms (=were present there in large numbers) and blocked the streets with their carriages to admire Wedgwood’s ware painting.
3. As the first President of the Royal Academy of Arts and the country’s _____ (=extremely important and successful) portrait painter of the eighteenth century, he shaped not only how the British elite saw themselves but also how art itself was understood in Britain.
4. Reynolds’ _____ (=a useful combination of different things) of classical influence, moral vision, and technical skill elevated painting from a craft into an intellectual _____.
5. Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792) stands as one of the _____ (=most important) figures in the history of British art.