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(1745-1806), who brought the art to perfection, displaying grace and good expression in all his pastel work, whether portrait, fancy picture, historical subject, group, or "conversation-piece.
preferred to paint idealized landscapes and what Reynolds called his 'fancy pictures'. His strange lighting was his own, but Rubens was an influence on his later work.
Throughout the 18th century, portraiture remained the most important genre of British painting, despite the efforts of Reynolds and Gainsborough in their 'fancy pictures.
In his last ten years, partly under the influence of Murillo, he extracted the genre elements from his landscapes and enlarged them into life size fancy pictures such as the unfinished 'Housemaid'.
 See also: Portraiture, Academy, Portrait, Classic, Painting
  
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