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'Heavily Laden', Halifax Mk111' by Terry Fox, Yorkshire Air Museum. I mean, just look at those colours!




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2020-06-18

On this grey & rainy day we thought we should share some skyscapes with 🌈 for this weeks theme 👉 &

🖼 Edward Brian Seago, The Rainbow, after 1945
🖼 Thomas Fenwick, Late Autumn Landscape, c.1850

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2020-06-18

For today's theme curator Jenna reflects on Brendan Neiland's 'Glencoe'

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2020-06-18

Today we're joining for skyscapes & clouds ☁️ we're hoping they'll brighten up later on🌤️ 🤞

Sky study with a shaft of sunlight. John Constable (British, 1776-1837). Oil on paper, 1822.

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2020-06-18

For 's self portrait themed Pippa has chosen a self portrait by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) from , who was a painter and design. She was also a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Wolf.

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2020-05-29

Couldn't let today's on Self Portraits pass without mentioning Watts!

'I paint myself constantly, that is to say whenever I want to make an experiment in method or colour'

Self-Portrait in the Style of Van Dyck, c.1831 and Self Portrait, 1904

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2020-05-28

Our 4th pick for using the theme - is of Ronald Ossory Dunlop - Irish author and painter in oil. Rather appropriately for also have a self-portait of him. That one shows him with a pipe as well

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2020-05-28

For today's theme of self-portraits, our gallery assistant Rabia has been inspired by The Whitworth's Lucian Freud self-portrait https://t.co/8dBQFOYqTE

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2020-05-28

Also for today's from , we love this 'two for the price of one' self-portrait by David Bomberg from . An economical Bomberg painted on both sides of the canvas.

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2020-05-28

Here are a couple of undated Patti Mayor self-portraits from our collection! We have so much of Mayor's work, from sketchbooks and preparatory sketches to unframed works on paper and board and paintings on canvas.

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2020-05-28

For today's we bring to you Ethel Sands' painting of her partner, Nan Hudson from - a scene all too familiar as we patiently wait for life to return to normal...

[Nan Hudson Playing Patience at Auppegard, France]

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2020-05-21



Today's theme is dogs so we've picked 'Dog Pointing Pheasants' by Jean-Baptiste Oudry from . We've compared it to a similar painting from our own collection 'A Dog Pointing a Partridge' from the studio of Oudry.

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2020-05-14

The next up for is two by the same artist, as we couldn't decide which we prefered. Both held by - The artist is Bel McCoig. Love the sense of adventure in 'Evening Cuppa Brings on Dreams', and the calm still of 'Two Dogs Reclining'

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2020-05-14

The theme for today's with is dogs! 🐶

From loyal hounds to fluffy tail-waggers, dogs have been painted many times throughout our collection. Here are some examples from Georges Seurat, Catharina van Hemessen, Jacob Jordaens and Gainsborough.

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2020-05-14

And our very last suggestion for on the is 'Lady Brisco' by Thomas Gainsborough. Because when a posh frock and big hair isn't enough, add an ostrich or two...

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2020-05-07

So interesting to see how changing fashions alter the portrayal of gods/godesses through the centuries. In a clockwise direction here is Circe from the 1600s (Grosvenor Museum), 1700s (Waddesdon Manor), 1800s(ours) & 1900s(Glasgow Museums Resource Centre_.

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2020-05-07

Another choice by curator, Kat, is Sir Joshua Reynold's 'Lady Bampfylde' (1776-77) held at the .

We have a mezzotint engraving by Thomas Watson of the same image, apparently so sought-after they turned Lady Bampfylde into an 18thC pin-up!

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2020-05-07

For this week's Vicky has chosen Echo and Narcissus by John William Waterhouse - a beautiful but sad mythological springtime - here's hoping for a much happier summer in reality! https://t.co/sUbau3lsC6

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2020-04-30

Browsing for more 🧅 and discovered this Ralph Pratt really knew his...

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2020-04-30