John Martin’s painting is one of his most strongly coloured and atmospheric … actually, that’s being overly polite. It is really quite gaudy and shocking in the flesh - all confectioner’s pink and ...

before finally gaining acceptance as a history painter through the Royal Academy exhibitions in 1811. He also produced book illustrations and engravings. John Martin (19 July 1789 – 17 February 1854) ...

This set of three large paintings was the final artistic enterprise of the most celebrated and controversial painter of biblical disaster in the nineteenth century, John Martin (1789–1854). The series ...

Belshazzar's Feast is a major painting by Rembrandt now in the National Gallery, London. The painting is Rembrandt's attempt to establish himself as a ...