http://standpointmag.co.uk/taxonomy/term/126 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://standpointmag.co.uk/art-january-february-12-naturalised-talents-michael-prodger-tate-britain-migrations-picasso-and-modern-british-art <p><b>Author:</b>Michael Prodger</p><p style="text-align: justify"> <br />Sir Peter Lely's &quot;Susanna and the Elders&quot;: His work influenced the British national school (Tate) </p><p style="text-align: justify">For the best part of two centuries there was precious little that was British about British art. In 1531 the courtier Sir Thomas Elyot complained that: &quot;If we wyll have any thinge well paynted, kerved, or embrawdred, to abandon our own countrymen and resort unto straungers.&quot; Chief among the &quot;straungers&quot; — or foreigners — he had in mind was Hans Holbein, who had arrived in England from Germany in 1526 aged 29. Holbein died on these shores too, an honorary Englishman, and because his work was so far removed from and so superior to anything being painted by native limners, he is the fons et origo of British art.</p><p><a href="http://standpointmag.co.uk/art-january-february-12-naturalised-talents-michael-prodger-tate-britain-migrations-picasso-and-modern-british-art"><span>read more</span></a></p> http://standpointmag.co.uk/art-january-february-12-naturalised-talents-michael-prodger-tate-britain-migrations-picasso-and-modern-british-art#comments Art Art Migrations Picasso and Modern British Art Tate Britain Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:05:42 +0000 Frances Weaver 4276 at http://standpointmag.co.uk