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We've chosen two images for today's one from our collection Feeding the Pigs by Jeffrey Steele and one from Miner Feeding a Pit Pony by T.H. Curry https://t.co/IhM2li2Buv

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2020-07-09

Today's is and we are here for it.

Wishing our lunches looked as elegant as this spread by Scottish artist Robert MacBryde in collection

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2020-07-09

Head of Collections Helen loves cream teas and recommends Dutton's on the fortified seafront at overlooking the site of this rather dramatic event from 1796, captured here by Nicholas Pocock in 1811

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2020-06-25

For this week's we bring to you 'The 'Conway', Liverpool and the Mauretania' by Kenneth Denton Shoesmith (1890 – 1939) in our collection. 🚢

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2020-06-25

Last choice for todays is a dramatic city and from 's collection called 'The Wood Lane Power Station, London 1907' by
Charles John Holmes. The smoking chimneys and of the scene remind us of Bradford at the time!

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2020-06-18

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




https://t.co/Bi55JmaBlW

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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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https://t.co/y9GNwi4zeJ

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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