John Martin

(1789–1854) engelsk målare och grafiker verksam under romantiken

John Martin (United Kingdom, 1789–1854) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a printmaker. By year of birth, John Martin belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.

John Martin was born in Haydon Bridge and died in Douglas. John Martin worked in England and United Kingdom. Wikidata associates John Martin with Romanticism.

The best-known works include ‘Belshazzar's Feast’, ‘Manfred on the Jungfrau’, and ‘The end of the world’. The works belong mainly to the genres landscape painting and religious painting. The catalogue has 129 works by John Martin with free images. The dated works span the years 1810–1853. Works by John Martin are held by several collections, among them Yale Center for British Art, Laing Art Gallery, Tate, and Victoria and Albert Museum. Wikidata links 2 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Romanticism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include David Cox, David Wilkie, Louis Dupré, Jules Robert Auguste, and Alexandre-François Caminade.

• Romanticism
• Sodom och Gomorras förstörelse
• The end of the world
• Belshazzar's Feast
• Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion