Canova in 1817 by George Hayter ( British Embassy, Paris ) There was, however, another proof, which modesty forbade him to mention, an ever-active benevolence, especially towards artists.

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They both viewed the work of British landscape artists John Constable and J. M. W. Turner, which confirmed to their belief that their style of open air painting gave the truest depiction of light and atmosphere, an effect that they felt could not be achieved in the studio alone.

Across the road, The Fruitmarket Gallery offers world class exhibitions of contemporary art, featuring work by British and international artists with both emerging and established international reputations.

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Also the widespread acceptance of video art as a form has made it possible for British artists such as Sam Taylor-Wood and Isaac Julien to make film works outside of the demands of cinema exhibition.

Together they had seven children, three of whom became noteworthy artists: Walter and Arthur Severn, and Ann Mary Newton, who married the archeologist and Keeper of Antiquities at the British Museum, Charles Thomas Newton.

He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie pop, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, electronic music and dance music.

The conventionalized scrawny, French revolutionary sans-culottes Jacobin, was developed from about 1790 by British satirical artists James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson and George Cruikshank.

Atlantic were a label with a catalogue of mainly blues, soul and jazz artists, but in the late 1960s it began to take an interest in progressive British rock acts.

British artists John Constable and J. M. W. Turner turned their attention to capturing the beauty of the natural world in their paintings.

Although these agreements changed during the 1980s and beyond, it is still expensive to repeat archive television series on British terrestrial television, as new contracts have to be drawn up and payments made to the artists concerned.

British rhythm and blues developed in the early 1960s, largely as a response to the recordings of American artists, often brought over by African American servicemen stationed in Britain during the Cold War, or merchant seamen visiting ports such as London, Liverpool, Newcastle on Tyne and Belfast.

Although this " purist " interest in the blues would have an impact on major British rock musicians, including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Peter Green and Jimmy Page, other artists adopted an interest in a wider range of rhythm and blues styles.

The British Mod subculture was musically centred on rhythm and blues and later soul music, performed by artists that were not available in small London clubs around which the scene was based.

The British R & B bands produced music which was very different in tone from that of African American artists, often with more emphasis on guitars and sometimes with greater energy.

They have been criticised for exploiting the massive catalogue of African American music, but it has also been noted that they both popularised that music, bringing it to British, world and in some cases American audiences, and helping to build the reputation of existing and past rhythm and blues artists.

The latter song also went to number one in America, making Orbison impervious to the current chart dominance of British artists on both sides of the Atlantic.

* Unit ( art collective ), a British artists ' collective

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New Wave and Synthpop were developed by many British and American artists, and became popular phenomena throughout the decade, especially in the early and mid eighties.

* British Invasion, which saw a number of 2000 AD artists and writers working for the big American firms during the 1980s.

Other artists including the Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt and David Roberts had similar motivations, giving an emphasis on realism in British Orientalist art from the start.

* 1934 – Brian Glover, British actor and wrestler ( d. 1997 )

Set in 1485 at the end of the British Middle Ages, the series is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by Richard IV ( Brian Blessed ), one of the Princes in the Tower.

Notable US radio disc jockeys of the period include Alan Freed, Wolfman Jack, Kasey Kasem, and their British counterparts such as the BBC's Brian Matthew, Radio London's John Peel, and later in the 60s, Radio Caroline's Tony Blackburn.

He was also able to give a number of British writers — Michael Moorcock, E. C. Tubb, Brian Stableford, Barrington Bayley, Michael Coney — a new American audience.

In 1988 the British artist and friend of Weizenbaum Brian Reffin Smith created and showed at the exhibition ' Salamandre ', in the Musée du Berry, Bourges, France, two art-oriented ELIZA-style programs written in BASIC, one called ' Critic ' and the other ' Artist ', running on two separate Amiga 1000 computers.

* 1940 – Brian Bennett, British musician ( The Shadows )

Brian Aldiss, another British science fiction writer, has disparagingly labelled some of them as " cosy catastrophes ", especially his novel The Day of the Triffids.

* 1943 – Brian Ferneyhough, British composer

Monty Python's Life of Brian, also known as Life of Brian, is a 1979 British comedy film written, directed and largely performed by the Monty Python comedy team.

Life of Brian has regularly been cited as a serious contender for the title " greatest comedy film of all time ", and has been named as such in polls conducted by Total Film magazine in 2000, the British TV network Channel 4 in 2006 and The Guardian newspaper in 2007.

The BFI declared Life of Brian to be the 28th best British film of all time, in their equivalent of the AFI's original 100 Years ... 100 Movies list.

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in his Prime Minister's Questions of 3 May 2006 made a shorthand reference to the types of political groups, " Judean People's Front " or " People's Front of Judea ", lampooned in Life of Brian.

She had directed the detailed planning of the funeral, including ordering all the major events and asking former President George H. W. Bush as well as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to speak during the National Cathedral Service.

* 1930 – Brian Robinson, British cyclist

* 1959 – Brian Bovell, British actor

Some notable British talk radio presenters include Tommy Boyd, James Whale, Steve Allen, Jon Gaunt, Nick Abbot, James Stannage, George Galloway, Ian Collins, Brian Hayes, Scottie McClue, Nicky Campbell and Simon Mayo.

* Cowan, Brian, The Social Life of Coffee: The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse.

At Prime Minister's Questions, Tony Blair agreed with questioner Brian Jenkins MP that the film was " an affront " to British sailors.

* February 24 – Brian Close, British cricketer

* July 3 – Brian Jones, British rock musician ( The Rolling Stones ) ( b. 1942 )

* June 15 – Brian Jacques, British writer ( d. 2011 )

* June 24 – Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator ( d. 1994 )

* September 7 – Sir Brian Horrocks, British general ( d. 1985 )