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The Bellany Family was featured in our gallery 2 exhibition, ICONS II: John Bellany. This powerful piece was painted in the 1960's and has been part of the collection since the late 80s. Lovingly recreated for

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2020-04-29

In the Lake District for today's First, the wonderful museum, reopened in 2019. Pair of paintings by Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, designed to delight a London audience: “Belle Isle, Windermere, in a Calm”(1786) and same “in a Storm” (1785).

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2020-04-23

We've shared this recently, but here is a painting by local artist Jacob Thompson 'The Druids Cutting the Mistletoe' that hangs in our museum, you can see the stone circle Long Meg in the background.

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2020-04-23

Sisters Gwendoline & Margaret Davies amassed one of the great British art collections of the 20th century. They bequeathed 260 works to - National Museum Wales, completely transforming the national art collection

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2020-04-22

Daw’r delweddau hyn o un o’n hoff lyfrau / These images are from one of our favourite books -

The British zoology. Class I. Quadrupeds. II. Birds. Published under the inspection of the Cymmrodorion Society. Thomas Pennant, 1766

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2020-04-22

The excellent British Baroque exhibition, Tate Britain. But a controversial portrait: Hortense Mancini by Benedetto Gennari (c1684). Public reaction to depiction of enslaved black children led to trigger warnings and Tate rewriting the label.

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2020-04-18

For Cambridge edition: the is full of unusual and interesting things.

Below: models of horses' teeth, 1890; calculators (they have a whole cabinet full of them; mathematician's knitting project modelling interweaving of atoms, 1885.

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2020-04-16

The unwrapping of the magnificent Grand Parade by Dame Laura Knight for the exhibition - a painting hidden in stores since 1970s

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2020-04-15

Born 1769, Thomas Lawrence, 4th President . 1st royal commission age 21, ‘Queen Charlotte’ . Famed for brilliance & virtuosity e.g. ‘Lady Peel’ ’Pinkie’ & ’Wellington’

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2020-04-14

Into my arms, oh lord...

Egypt Gallery shows visitors how the dead would be placed in the embrace of Sky goddess Nut who would protect them from chaos for eternity. She would enfold & protect them for all things evil

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2020-04-05