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John Martin (painter) 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 ...
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.
Mar 23, 2016 · John Martin (1789–1854) was a contemporary and friend of JMW Turner, William Etty, Thomas Cole, and Washington Allston, and was as popular and successful as the best of them. Working almost exclusively in the Burkean sublime, Martin made a name for himself with huge dark apocalyptic scenes, although he also painted some pleasant landscapes.
Martin’s last works before his death in 1854 comprise a trilogy of large oil paintings: The Plains of Heaven, The Great Day of His Wrath, and The Last Judgement. Showing both serene and terrifying elements of nature, the three apocalyptic paintings are considered among Martin’s greatest works.
John Martin (1789–1854) was a key figure in the nineteenth-century art world, renowned for his dramatic scenes of apocalyptic destruction and biblical catastrophe.
John Martin: (1789-1854) was an English Romantic painter, engraver and illustrator. His work was often vast and dramatic often having biblical themes. He was born in Haydon Bridge in Northumberland, Britain on 19th July 1789 and died in the Isle of Man on 17th February 1854 aged 64.
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Biography. English Romantic painter and mezzotint engraver, celebrated for his melodramatic scenes of cataclysmic events crowded with tiny figures placed in vast architectural settings.
