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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:
ABBOTT, JOHN WHITE (1763-1851)
ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1767-1816)
ALKEN, HENRY THOMAS (1785-1851)
BENTLEY, CHARLES OWS (1806-1854)
BOYS, THOMAS SHOTTER NWS (1803-1874)
CARTER, HENRY BARLOW (1804-1868)
COTMAN, MILES EDMUND (1810-1858)
COX, DAVID OWS PAA (1783-1859)
CROMEK, THOMAS HARTLEY ANWS (1809-1873)
GLOVER, JOHN POWS SBA (1767-1849)
GRIMM, SAMUEL HIERONYMUS (1733-1794)
HAYWARD, JOHN SAMUEL (1778-1822)
IBBETSON, JULIUS CAESAR (1759-1817)
MUNN, PAUL SANDBY AOWS (1773-1845)
NICHOLSON, FRANCIS OWS (1753-1844)
NIXON, JOHN (before 1759-1818)
PARKER, HENRY PERLEE (1795-1873)
PAYNE, WILLIAM AOWS (1760-1830)
PETIT, THE REVEREND JOHN LOUIS (1810-1868)
PROUT, SAMUEL OWS AA (1783-1852)
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)
WOODWARD, GEORGE MURGATROYD (1760-1809)
WYLD, WILLIAM AA RI (1806-1889)
AUSTIN, ROBERT SARGENT RA PRWS PRE (1895-1973)
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)
CRANE, WALTER RWS RI ROI (1845-1915)
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)
RACKHAM, ARTHUR VPRWS (1867-1939)
ROBINSON, WILLIAM HEATH (1872-1944)
SPIERS, BENJAMIN WALTER (Active 1875-1893)
WHITLEY, KATE MARY RI (circa 1851-1920)
WRIGHT, JOHN MASEY OWS (1777-1866)
ALLINGHAM, HELEN RWS (1848-1926)
BRABAZON, HERCULES BRABAZON NEAC PS (1821-1906)
CAFFIERI, HECTOR RI (1847-1932)
CALLOW, WILLIAM RWS (1812-1908)
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, 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)
PERIGAL JNR, ARTHUR RSA RSW (1816-1884)
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)
WYLLIE, WILLIAM LIONEL RA RBA RE RI NEAC (1851-1931)
BONE, SIR DAVID MUIRHEAD HRSA HRSW HRWS NEAC (1876-1953)
HANDLEY-READ, EDWARD HARRY RBA (1870-1935)
SIMPSON, CHARLES WALTER RCanA (1878-1942)
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)
TUKE, HENRY SCOTT RA RWS RBA NEAC (1858-1929)
ARCHER, FRANK RWS RE (1912-1995)
KAY, PAMELA RWS RBA NEAC (Born 1939)
PEMBERTON, MURIEL RWS FSIA (1909-1993)
RICHARDS, CERI CBE LG (1903-1971)
ROSOMAN, LEONARD OBE RA RP RWA (Born 1913)
ROTHENSTEIN, MICHAEL RA RE (1908-1993)