TATE BRITAIN, English School Beginnings

After admiring the 19th and 20th-century sculptures exhibited in the Duveen Gallery, take some time to see the the great depictions of Henry Moore to your left.

Let me start by telling you that for many centuries, the British art school entrusted itself to major "continental" artists that had been called to work at the English court. In these first halls you can follow the somewhat uncertain beginnings of local painters from the Tudor and Elizabethan ages between the 1500s and the 1600s, especially in the field of aristocratic portraits, which all used as their very authoritative model portraits by the great Flemish master Anton Van Dyck.

In the meantime you can also begin to take in the other great British genre of painting that was beginning to take hold in those years: landscapes. Also in this case the first landmarks were by continental artists, especially Dutch landscape painters or French masters such as Poussin and Claude Lorrain, who are quite loved by British collectors....