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Description: | The collection of oil paintings, prints and drawings and sculpture covers a wide range of periods and dates of sitters connected with Dorset. There are 120 oil portraits, including individual sitters and several significant eighteenth and century family groups, and over 40 miniatures. The collection has evolved over the last 150 years, initially through gifts and later expanded and developed through gifts, bequests and purchases. The collection covers the period from about 1604, with particular strengths in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Portrait of Admiral Browne possibly by Robert Peake the Elder, portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, Lester Garland family portraits, portrait of Thomas Hardy by Herkomer and Eves, portraits of William Barnes, local Dorset sitters from 18th - 20th century; Dorset County Museum | Format: | Sculpture Paintings Drawings Prints | Temporal: | 20th century - early 1900-1930 18th century - late 1776-1799 19th century - early Victorian 1837-1850 18th century - mid 1730-1775 17th century - mid 1630-1675 19th century - early 1800-1836 18th century - early 1700-1730 19th century - mid Victorian 1851-1875 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899 17th century - late 1676-1699 | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01305 257 180 | Telephone: | 01305 262 735 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8748 | Format: | Sculpture Paintings Drawings Prints | Go to resource |
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