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Description: | -The painting collection has works covering the period 1400-1900 from England, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy. The Spanish material, 80 works, much from the de Quinto collection is strong in the Madrid School e.g. Carreno, Camillo and Pereda. Other centres are Seville and Toledo and have works from the 15th -18th centuries. Significant are 'The tears of St Peter' by El Greco and 2 by Goya 'Portarit of Melendez Valdes' and ' Prison scene'.
French pieces, about 500 include landscapes of 17th - 19th centuries by Allegrin, Boucher, Corot and Robert; 200 works of 1860s - 1870s including portraits by JD Court, seascapes by Baron Gudin, figure studies by Chaplin and genre by Adolphe Cals. A large group of Neo classical works including 'Duchesse d'Angouleme' by Baron Gros and studio portraits of Napoleon by Girodet.
The Italian School has works from the main centres with the strongest from Naples with pieces by Fracanzano, Vaccaro, Mura, Solimena, and Giordano' sketch 'The triumph of Judith' for the Treasury ceiling in the Certoas di San Martino in Naples. Portraits by Trevisani, landscapes by Canaletto, sketches by Giaquinto, Diziani and Tiepolo. High Rennaisance and Mannerism by Solario, Caprioli, Salvaiati and an early Renaissance work by Sassetta's 'Miracle of the Holy Sacrament' of 1423-26.
The drawings, watecolour and print colllection consists of about 3,000 works including some rare examples of French 18th century colour printing, good watercolours of local topography by Hearne, Turner and Girtin and a small (90 piece) collection of minatures, 30 illuminated manuscripts, a run of 'Charivari' from the 1840s and 50s with prints by Daumier.
Pubications include:
Young, E Catalogue of Spanish and Italian paintings, 1990, Durham;
Coutts, H The Road to Impressionism, 2002, Bowes Museum;
Conran et al, The Bowes Museum,1992, Scala
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