Bath's small public art museum has a nice collection including Gainsborough oil pantings

From pre-history to the late Middle Ages

The rebirth of Classical ideals lead to a Europe-wide flowering of the arts

The early 19C Romantic era of painting

This late 19C Romantic offshoot offered a, well, a romanticized reinterpretation of the Medieval style

Modern art in England

The great eras, artist, movements, and styles of English art and architecture

English Art History 101: The great artists, eras, and styles

The major periods of artistic development in England

The greatest artists represented in English museums, palaces, and other sights

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

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

A Titan of England's early baroque era

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

Master of the 19C British landscape

An amazing British painter whose work presages the Impressionists

The foremost sculptor of the middle 20th century

The king of the English Abstract movement

A dark, brooding Expressionist focused on man's foibles

A darker, more modern version of Van Gogh

A Pop Artist with a playful sensibility

The king of the 90s shock artists

The greatest artists in English history

Artists from elsewhere with significant works in England

A glossary of common art and architecture terminology