WATERCOLOUR

A Celebration of Three Centuries of the English Art

400 superlative images comprise a survey of the art of watercolour from early topographers to contemporary masters, and from informal sketches to large-scale, finished exhibits. Landscape and townscape, figure and portrait, still life and illustration: all are rendered beautiful in this most versatile medium.

The exhibition is divided into 6 sections, each focusing on a different period and aspect of the art's rich history:

1. Early English Watercolourists
2. Private Worlds
3. Exhibiting Watercolour, Exhibiting the World
4. War
5. Recording Britain
6. Towards Abstraction and onto Today

Monday - Saturday, 10am - 5.30pm

you may choose an artist or chapter from the list:

1 Early English Watercolourists

ABBOTT, JOHN WHITE (1763-1851)

ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1767-1816)

ALKEN, HENRY THOMAS (1785-1851)

BALMER, GEORGE (1806-1846)

BENTLEY, CHARLES OWS (1806-1854)

BOYS, THOMAS SHOTTER NWS (1803-1874)

BRIGHT, HENRY (1810-1873)

CARTER, HENRY BARLOW (1804-1868)

COTMAN, MILES EDMUND (1810-1858)

COX, DAVID OWS PAA (1783-1859)

CROMEK, THOMAS HARTLEY ANWS (1809-1873)

CUIT, GEORGE (1743-1818)

DAYES, EDWARD (1763-1804)

DEVIS, ANTHONY (1729-1816)

GLOVER, JOHN POWS SBA (1767-1849)

GRIFFITH, MOSES (1747-1819)

GRIMM, SAMUEL HIERONYMUS (1733-1794)

HAYWARD, JOHN SAMUEL (1778-1822)

HILLS, ROBERT OWS (1769-1844)

HOWITT, SAMUEL (1756/57-1822)

IBBETSON, JULIUS CAESAR (1759-1817)

MIDDLETON, JOHN (1827-1856)

MUNN, PAUL SANDBY AOWS (1773-1845)

NICHOLSON, FRANCIS OWS (1753-1844)

NIXON, JOHN (before 1759-1818)

PARKER, HENRY PERLEE (1795-1873)

PARS, WILLIAM ARA (1742-1782)

PAYNE, WILLIAM AOWS (1760-1830)

PETIT, THE REVEREND JOHN LOUIS (1810-1868)

POCOCK, NICHOLAS (1740-1821)

PROUT, SAMUEL OWS AA (1783-1852)

PYNE, GEORGE (1800-1884)

PYNE, JAMES BAKER RBA (1800-1870)

RICHARDSON SNR, THOMAS MILES (1784-1848)

ROOKER, MICHAEL ANGELO ARA (1746-1801)

ROWLANDSON, THOMAS (1756/57-1827)

SERRES, JOHN THOMAS (1759-1825)

SHEPHERD, GEORGE SIDNEY NWS (1784-1862)

SHEPHERD, THOMAS HOSMER (1793-1864)

SMITH, JOHN 'WARWICK' OWS (1749-1831)

STANFIELD, CLARKSON RA (1793-1867)

SUNDERLAND, THOMAS (1744-1823)

SWETE, THE REVEREND JOHN (1752-1821)

TURNER OF OXFORD, WILLIAM OWS (1789-1862)

VARLEY, JOHN OWS (1778-1842)

WOODWARD, GEORGE MURGATROYD (1760-1809)

WYLD, WILLIAM AA RI (1806-1889)


2 Private Worlds

AUSTIN, ROBERT SARGENT RA PRWS PRE (1895-1973)

BEARDSLEY, AUBREY (1872-1898)

BEERBOHM, SIR MAX NEAC NPS (1872-1956)

BRABAZON, HERCULES BRABAZON NEAC PS (1821-1906)

BREWTNALL, EDWARD FREDERICK RWS RBA (1846-1902)

COLEMAN, HELEN CORDELIA ARWS RI (1847-1884)

CORBOULD, RICHARD (1757-1831)

CRANE, WALTER RWS RI ROI (1845-1915)

DOYLE, CHARLES (1832-1893)

DOYLE, RICHARD (1824-1883)

DULAC, EDMUND (1882-1953)

FROST, WILLIAM EDWARD RA (1810-1877)

GREENAWAY, KATE RI (1846-1901)

HARDWICK, JOHN JESSOP ARWS (1831-1917)

HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY OWS (1790-1864)

MILLAIS, SIR JOHN EVERETT PRA (1829-1896)

POTTER, BEATRIX (1866-1943)

RACKHAM, ARTHUR VPRWS (1867-1939)

ROBINSON, WILLIAM HEATH (1872-1944)

SHERRIN, JOHN RI (1819-1896)

SPIERS, BENJAMIN WALTER (Active 1875-1893)

TARRANT, MARGARET (1888-1959)

WHITLEY, KATE MARY RI (circa 1851-1920)

WRIGHT, JOHN MASEY OWS (1777-1866)


3 Exhibiting Watercolour, Exhibiting the World

19TH CENTURY , ENGLISH SCHOOL

ALLINGHAM, HELEN RWS (1848-1926)

BRABAZON, HERCULES BRABAZON NEAC PS (1821-1906)

CAFFIERI, HECTOR RI (1847-1932)

CALLOW, WILLIAM RWS (1812-1908)

CARELLI, GABRIEL (1821-1900)

CHADWICK, ERNEST ALBERT RBSA RCamA RI NSA (1876-1955)

COMPTON, EDWARD THEODORE (1849-1921)

ELGOOD, GEORGE SAMUEL RI ROI (1851-1943)

FOSTER, MYLES BIRKET RWS (1825-1899)

FRASER, ARTHUR ANDERSON (1861-1904)

FRASER, ROBERT WINCHESTER (1848-1906)

FULLEYLOVE, JOHN RI (1845-1908)

GARDEN, WILLIAM FRASER (1856-1921)

GOODWIN, ALBERT RWS (1845-1932)

GOODWIN, KATE MALLESON (Active 1862-1900)

GOW, MARY L RI RMS (1851-1929)

HARE, AUGUSTUS (1834-1903)

HARE, ST GEORGE RI ROI (1857-1933)

HENSHALL, JOHN HENRY RWS (1856-1928)

HENSHAW, FREDERICK HENRY RBSA (1807-1891)

HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM VPRWS (1830-1896)

HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY OWS (1790-1864)

KEELEY, JOHN (Active 1883-1905)

KILBURNE, GEORGE GOODWIN RBA RI ROI (1839-1924)

KNOX, GEORGE JAMES (1810-1897)

LEITCH, RICHARD PRINCIPAL (1826-1882)

MARSHALL, HERBERT MENZIES VPRWS RE ROI (1841-1913)

ORROCK, JAMES RI ROI (1829-1913)

PARSONS, BEATRICE (1869-1955)

PERIGAL JNR, ARTHUR RSA RSW (1816-1884)

RAYNER, LOUISE (1832-1924)

ROBERTS, HENRY BENJAMIN RI (1832-1915)

SIMPSON, WILLIAM FRGS RI (1823-1899)

TYNDALE, WALTER RI (circa 1855-circa 1943)

WATERFORD, LOUISA ANNE MARCHIONESS OF (1818-1891)

WEATHERILL, GEORGE (1810-1890)

WEATHERILL, MARY (1834-1913)

WOODLOCK, DAVID (1842-1929)

WYLLIE, WILLIAM LIONEL RA RBA RE RI NEAC (1851-1931)


4 War

BONE, SIR DAVID MUIRHEAD HRSA HRSW HRWS NEAC (1876-1953)

GOODWIN, HARRY (1842-1926)

HANDLEY-READ, EDWARD HARRY RBA (1870-1935)

LANTOINE, FERNAND (Died 1955)

SIMPSON, CHARLES WALTER RCanA (1878-1942)

SZYK, ARTHUR (1894-1951)


5 Recording Britain

BADMIN, STANLEY ROY RWS RE AIA (1906-1989)

BATCHELOR, ROLAND RWS (1889-1990)

CLAUSEN, SIR GEORGE RA RSW RWS HRBA RI ROI NEAC (1852-1944)

GINGER, PHYLLIS RWS (1907-2005)

HENNELL, THOMAS RWS (1903-1945)

HUNT, CECIL ARTHUR VPRWS RBA (1873-1965)

JAMES, FRANCIS EDWARD RWS NEAC RBA (1849-1920)

KNIGHT, CHARLES RWS ROI (1901-1990)

NICHOLLS, BERTRAM PRBA ROI (1883-1974)

SCHWABE, RANDOLPH RWS LG NEAC (1885-1948)

SMITH, ARTHUR REGINALD ARA RSW RWS (1871-1934)

SQUIRRELL, LEONARD RUSSELL RWS RE RI (1893-1979)

THELWELL, NORMAN (1923-2004)

TUKE, HENRY SCOTT RA RWS RBA NEAC (1858-1929)


6 Towards Abstraction and onto Today

ARCHER, FRANK RWS RE (1912-1995)

COKER, PETER RA (1926-2004)

COX, PAUL (Born 1957)

FOTHERBY, LESLEY (Born 1946)

GIRVAN, GERALDINE (Born 1947)

GRANT, KEITH (Born 1930)

HAMMOND, ROY (Born 1934)

KAPP, EDMOND (1890-1978)

KAY, PAMELA RWS RBA NEAC (Born 1939)

PEMBERTON, MURIEL RWS FSIA (1909-1993)

PORTER, TONY (Born 1945)

RICHARDS, CERI CBE LG (1903-1971)

ROSOMAN, LEONARD OBE RA RP RWA (Born 1913)

ROTHENSTEIN, MICHAEL RA RE (1908-1993)


 

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