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We have chosen Skaters at the Westover Ice Rink, Bournemouth by Henry George Gawthorn from the collection for todays
We’re looking forward to the figure skating and speed skating
https://t.co/0OltMNECdg

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2022-02-03

We're celebrating our favourite sport from the for today's ⛸️

This is "Skaters at the Westover Ice Rink, Bournemouth" by George Henry Gawthorn

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2022-02-03

We've chosen "Stags in the Snow" by John Lamplugh Kirk, from the collection of our friends for today's wintery ❄️🦌

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2022-01-27

For this week's with on a scene with a dramatic, mysterious backstory:

HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, Victorian expeditionary ships lost in the Arctic. What became of them? Probably not polar bears🔗https://t.co/z9HCQC7H0M
📍

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2022-01-27

John Olsen (b. 21.1.1928)
‘Sunrise’ (2016)
Mixed media on paper
80 x 89 cm

🌅

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2022-01-21

For today's theme " the colour orange" , here is Sibyl Erythraea by George Jamesone (1589/1590–1644) from . Orange dress and lips to match! How cute is this lamb!
https://t.co/cuHxorsyZY

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2022-01-13

For today’s
orange-themed 🧡

Hockey on Ice

by Averil Mary Burleigh (1883-1949)
about 1930

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2022-01-13

This week's is ✨ JOY ✨

We've picked something which is bitterly ironic. This is 'The Joy of Life' by the Surrealist Max Ernst. Look at the painting closely...🔍

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2022-01-07

Today's is all about ❄ and we think that this scene could be on a Christmas card!

🦌 Stags in the Snow by John Lamplugh Kirk (1869-1940) from (Kirk founded York Castle Museum in 1938!)

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2021-12-16

The is upon us and we celebrate with this beautiful Netherlandish scene for today's
Dating to c.1510 it is an example of an early depiction of the Christmas story

In the collection of the Walker Art Gallery

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2021-12-16

Not long now until Christmas!

This scene by Kilsyth artist Alexander Gibson shows a snowy King St Corner in the village in 1920 https://t.co/1PdkN9XCkt…

The painting hangs in

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2021-12-16

This week’s has a festive theme. From ‘Winter Landscape’ George Morland. Prints of this work are available from the huge selection at the Art UK shop 👉🏼 https://t.co/YXEYwgn7Yr order before Sunday 19th for Christmas Day delivery https://t.co/Fhw8xonazn

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2021-12-16

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) was a highly intelligent woman who was an advocate of small pox inoculation and introduced it to Britain in 1721. This portrait by Godfrey Kneller from our collection is on display at

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2021-12-10

On powerful & striking portraits:

Femme et Bebe by Jean Dubuffet

& Black Mother by Ernst Neuschul

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2021-12-09

Portraiture is the this week

We've selected: Lady Brisco (d.1822) by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) from Kenwood

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2021-12-09

These boots were made for walking... in Wellington's army at Waterloo! Major General Sir Richard Hussey Vivian (Later 1st Lord Vivian) (1775–1842) by Martin Archer Shee (1769–1850) is in collection. Vivian studied .

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2021-12-02

For today’s fanciest footwear theme we have chosen ‘Shoes and a Feather’ by Georgina Moutray Kyle, from the Belfast Castle Collection. We are fortunate to also have some work by Moutray Kyle in our own Collection. We love these very fancy shoes!👠

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2021-12-02

We're all about the fancy footwear for today! 👠

Here's Georgina Moutray Kyle’s ‘Shoes and a Feather’ from the collection at The yellow gives this painting ‘sole’ and character, don’t you think? 💛

➡️ https://t.co/fwUWnfTLNl

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2021-12-02

You have a wonderful collection of abstract art ! Rather taken by this other Mark Rowan-Hull artwork you hold: Blue and Red Abstract with Blue Swirl. They fit 's today perfectly.

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2021-11-26

Today's celebrates so we're sharing 'Sun Dial' by Helen Frankenthaler in the collection of . Frankenthaler was born in New York and became one of the defining artists of American Abstract Expressionism.

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2021-11-25