This acquisition adds to our Gainsborough family portraits including two magical double portraits of Margaret & Mary (NG3812 & NG1811). There's another portrait of the sisters from late 1750s (pic 3) 2/

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The ship's COOK must incorporate exotic ingredients as the ship visits new shores... PENGUIN anyone?! Amazingly the Golden Hinde records no diet-related casualties at all: not even the common & deadly scurvy (caused by vitamin C deficiency), what a brilliant cook!

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Happy Birthday Barnett Freedman! Born 19 May 1901 - Looking forward to reopening the Barnett Freedman exhibition before too long. Here’s his ‘Cockney Types’ dancing from his London Ballet

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From our collection to yours - bring a little joy to your zoom meetings with a virtual view, a lockdown landscape or an interesting interior! Choose from a selection on our Museum From Home page
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The Late Arrivals by H.M. Bateman (1887-1970)
The Tatler, 3 December 1922
Pen, ink & watercolour on board



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Here is the natural world in all its beauty. Jacob van Ruisdael painted many images that demonstrated the raw power of nature. However, it is unlikely that he ever saw a waterfall like this one during his lifetime.

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【美術館】 《空の訣別》1937年の右下に描かれている白いハンカチ、レースの部分は、本物のハンカチに白い絵具をつけて、ペタンと画面に押し付けて表現してあります。北脇の絵は、よく見ていくとさまざまな実験に気づかされます。

 

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Ronald Searle CBE: Sunset, Oahu, Honolulu, Holiday Magazine, 1965.



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Beekman Verplanck Hoffman served as lieutenant aboard during the War of 1812. He was the only officer aboard during all 3 of the ship's major victories, and he brought along his pet dog, Guerriere the Terrier. More at https://t.co/FiIRngNumO

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The Church of the Knights Templar, Segovia, Spain', 1910 by Wyndham Tryon (1883-1942)
Wyndham Tryon is one of several British 20th century artists whose works were given to through the bequest of Sir Michael Sadler.

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Over the next few weeks we are going to highlight some of our favourite objects in local collections. These leather pattens are a type of heeled overshoe worn to raise women's slippers and skirts above the dirt of Edinburgh's streets

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1727, Thomas Gainsborough baptised, Sudbury, Suffolk. Leading portrait painter & famed for wonderful 'fancy pictures' & landscapes. My favourites are these paintings of his daughters Mary & Margaret

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1/7 🏰🎨⏳📖⚔️🖌🔍 The Battle of Anghiari, Fresco by Leonardo da Vinci, 1505. Copy by Peter Paul Rubens ...

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'Light expelling darkness, - evaporation of stygian exhalations, - or - the sun of the constitution, rising superior to the clouds of opposition' by James Gillray (1756-1815)
Etching, 1795.



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Week 5 in our and E is for Joan Eardley

"Children and Chalked Wall No. 2"

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