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Description: | Seventeenth-century and eighteenth-century British portraits from the collection of Sir William Holburne (1793-1874) and later gifts including works by Cornelius Jonson, Allan Ramsay, Thomas Gainsborough and George Stubbs. Portraits relating to C18 Bath acquired by the Holburne Museum, including works by Angelica Kauffman, Henry Walton and Bath artists William Tate, Thomas Beach, Thomas Barker and William Hoare. The collection includes long-term loans of important Bath-period works by Gainsborough, most notably The Byam Family. The Museum also has a small group of C18 pastel portraits, and about 200 portrait miniatures and silhouettes, mostly C18 and early C19, with an outstanding group of 12 plumbago (graphite) drawings c.1700 by Thomas Forster, and works by the all the principal Bath miniaturists of the Georgian period, including Jagger, Daniel, Rosenberg, Spornberg and Humphry. A small group of miscellaneous portrait drawings, including early C20 studies by George Clausen and Oswald Sickert. The Holburne Museum has recently received the Frank Brown collection, a legacy of prints and drawings related to music and theatre in C18-19 Bath, most of them portraits. Since the initation of the Holburne Contemporary Portrait Prize in 2001, the Holburne has been commissioning a series of new portraits by local artists, choosing sitters from among people who have been influential in the cultural life of the South West.; Holburne Museum | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01225 333 121 | Telephone: | 01225 466 669 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8775 | Go to resource |
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