Description: | Core is continental paintings given by F D Lycett Green in 1955 from 14th -18th century including works by Fungai, Bacchiacca, Luini, Parmigianino, Procaccini, Feti, Giordano, Pittoni, Batoni, Guardi, and Bellotto and 'Portrait of Monsignor Agucchi' by Domenichino or Carracci. Other works by Stigel, Van Baburen, Snyders, Van Goyen, VAn Dyck, Dughet, Millet, Watteau, Mazo, Valdes, Leal and Melendez.
British painting is from Elizabethan to present with portraiture by Lely, Hogarth, Reynolds, Cotes; also works by Kneller, Mercier, Vanderbank, and Soldi. Comprehensive collection of William Etty RA including portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.
Collection of 8,000 watercolours, prints and drawings mainly British devoted to topograph of York and North Yorkshire by a variety of artists including Turner, Cotman, sanby, Griffith, Rowlandson, Ibbetson, Abbott, Cristall, Girtin, Varley, Birket Foster, Goodwin, Farncis Place, Flaxman and William Ett
1500 book illustrations including Aldin, Dicksee, Heath Robinson, Byam Shaw, Tenniel, May and Rackham.
Collection of c 1000 of Western European art from 1350 to present of local, regional, national and international significance built on a number of bequests, purcheses and gifts of paintings, prints, drawings, watercolours and sculpture; the ceramics, furniture and glass are described under Yorkshire Museum. Core is continental paintings from 14th -18th century including works by Fungai, Bacchiacca, Luini, Parmigianino, Procaccini, Feti, Giordano, Pittoni, Batoni, Guardi, and Bellotto and 'Portrait of Monsignor Agucchi' by Domenichino or Carracci. Other works by Stigel, Van Baburen, Snyders, Van Goyen, Van Dyck, Dughet, Millet, Watteau, Mazo, Valdes, Leal and Melendez. British painting is from Elizabethan to present with portraiture by Lely, Hogarth, Reynolds, Cotes; also works by Kneller, Mercier, Vanderbank, and Soldi. Comprehensive collection of William Etty RA including portraits, landscapes, and still lifes.19th centruy work by Phillip, Frith, Hardy, Albert Moore and Watts; Rousseau, Boudin, Fanti-Latour and O'Connor, Steer and Conder. 20th century works by Sickert, Gilman, Gore, Gwen John, Lowry, Nash, Nicholson and Spencer; also Hayden and Mueller.
Victorian paintings from John Burton's bequest in 1882; Dr W A Evelyn's collection of York topography purchsed in 1931; Eric Milner-White gift of 35 late 19th and early 20th century British paintings between 1951 -59; f D Lycett Green gave collection of continental Old Master paintings in 1955; James Tillotson-Hyde gave late 19th and early 20th century designs for book illustrations in 1962; 'in lieu' from HM treasury include a Van Dyck, a Ben Nicholson and portraits by Beechey and Lawrence at Norton Conyers and Sledmere.
Collection of 8,000 watercolours, prints and drawings mainly British devoted to topograph of York and North Yorkshire by a variety of artists including Turner, Cotman, sanby, Griffith, Rowlandson, Ibbetson, Abbott, Cristall, Girtin, Varley, Birket Foster, Goodwin, Farncis Place, Flaxman and William Etty. But there are also 1500 book illustrations including Aldin, Dicksee, Heath Robinson, Byam Shaw, Tenniel, May and Rackham. Some French 19th century woks by Pissaro and Signac and 20th century woks by Sargent, Piper, Burra and Ozenfant. |