LONDON.- National fundraising charity the Art Fund has helped Buxton Museum and Art Gallery acquire an important 18th century painting capturing a local scene. The Art Fund contributed £6,666 towards the acquisition of View of Matlock, Derbyshire by W…
Sword Bought for Royal Marines Museum in Time for Battle Anniversary
PORTSMOUTH.- The Royal Marines Museum in Portsmouth has acquired an important presentation sword 200 years after the Battle it commemorates. The steel sword was presented to Captain Robert Torrens following the Battle for Anholt on 27 March 1811. Thank…
Sword Bought for Royal Marines Museum in Time for Battle Anniversary
PORTSMOUTH.- The Royal Marines Museum in Portsmouth has acquired an important presentation sword 200 years after the Battle it commemorates. The steel sword was presented to Captain Robert Torrens following the Battle for Anholt on 27 March 1811. Thank…
Walker Art Gallery Acquires Important Watercolour: "Goodbye on the Mersey" by James Tissot
LIVERPOOL.- The Walker Art Gallery has acquired a striking watercolour study of 19th century emigration by the French artist, James Tissot with help from the Art Fund, the UK’s national fundraising charity for works of art. Goodbye on the Mersey i…
Walker Art Gallery Acquires Important Watercolour: "Goodbye on the Mersey" by James Tissot
LIVERPOOL.- The Walker Art Gallery has acquired a striking watercolour study of 19th century emigration by the French artist, James Tissot with help from the Art Fund, the UK’s national fundraising charity for works of art. Goodbye on the Mersey i…
Ten Museums in Running for £100,000 “Museum of the Year” Art Fund Prize 2011
LONDON.- The long list of ten museums that are in the running for the UK’s largest arts prize – the Art Fund Prize 2011 – will be revealed on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. The long list of museums competing for the ‘Museum of the Ye…
Ten Museums in Running for £100,000 “Museum of the Year” Art Fund Prize 2011
LONDON.- The long list of ten museums that are in the running for the UK’s largest arts prize – the Art Fund Prize 2011 – will be revealed on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. The long list of museums competing for the ‘Museum of the Ye…
Falmouth Art Gallery to Display Newly Acquired Tacita Dean Works
CORNWALL.- Falmouth Art Gallery has acquired its first set of works by internationally acclaimed artist and Falmouth graduate Tacita Dean. The works are to go on public display for the first time in the UK next month. Entitled A sequence of stones: &#…
Help Secure Future of Frome Hoard at Special Wells Fundraising Event
LONDON.- Help save the Frome Hoard for the Museum of Somerset at a special fundraising event at the Bishop’s Palace, Wells at 4.30pm on Wednesday 26 January. The event organised by the Somerset Committee of the Art Fund, the national fundraising c…
Pair of Paintings by Sir Peter Lely Reunited at the Dulwich Picture Gallery with New Acquisition
LONDON.- In time for its 2011 Bicentenary year, Dulwich Picture Gallery announced its acquisition of the portrait of Bartholomew Beale by Sir Peter Lely. The portrait is now reunited with its counterpart, Sir Peter Lely’s A Boy as a Shepherd, one…