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Description: | The collection consists of 350 Old Master paintings, 2,500 prints, 2,000 drawings, 180 pieces of 18th-century glass donated by Major Gerald Harding and 150 Russian icons by C R Patterson. An Important collection of European Old Master paintings include works by Lippi, Tintoretto, Annibale Carracci, Veronese, Salvator Rosa, Hugo van der Goes, Van Dyke and Frans Hals, Old Master drawings, mainly Italian, from 14th to 18th centuries including Sano di Pietro, Filippino Lippi, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael; prints 15th - 18th centuries from France, Italy, Holland, Germany and England; metal and panel icons, mainly 18th and 19th centuries; painted portraits, almost all British and 10 pieces of sculpture. Many of the paintings and almost all of the drawings were bequeathed by John Guise in 1765; Sir William Fox-Strangways and the neice of Walter Landor donated the 14th and 15th century paintings | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Christ Church
Oriel Square Oxford Oxfordshire United Kingdom,
OX1 1DP | FAX: | 01865 202 429 | Telephone: | 01865 276 172 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4270 | Go to resource |
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