Around the world in 80 paintings

The penultimate week of the begins at Hilton Fell and Murton Pike near Appleby, Westmorland with a charcoal and wash landscape by Sir Charles John Holmes.

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2021-04-26

Around the world in 80 paintings

Today the takes us to Oxford and a detailed view of the Radcliffe Camera building at the University of Oxford. William Turner is often known as 'Turner of Oxford' to distinguish him from his more famous namesake.

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2021-04-13

Around the world in 80 paintings

Today the takes us to 'Vietri and Raito, Bay of Salerno' by John Robert Cozens.

This scene is dominated by the dramatic landscape and is in Cozens' preferred subtle washes of green, grey and blue.

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2021-04-09

Around the world in 80 paintings

'Le Petit Pont, Paris' is the next stop on the

Charles Meryon was a well known French etcher and produced a series of images of Paris in the 1850s.

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2021-03-30

Around the world in 80 paintings:

On day 5 we're taking in the views of Bregenz in Austria captured by JMW Turner in the 1840s

Sir Michael Sadler bought this work and donated it to the Cooper Gallery in memory of his parents who had lived and worked in Barnsley.

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2021-01-22