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Description: | Local solicitor J.A.D. Shipley bequeathed his art collection to Gateshead after his death in 1909, on condition that a Gallery was built. (Newcastle was offered the collection, but did not agree to this condition.) The Shipley Art Gallery was built 1914-17 by Gateshead Council. Shipley had lived at Saltwell Towers, Gateshead, and had a solicitor's office in Newcastle. A selection of Shipley's 2,500 paintings was kept for the new Gallery. The rest were sold to help fund the Gallery. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | work artists living in the North East art North East artists Gateshead men | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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