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Description: | Over 20,000 paintings, prints and drawings collected primarily for their London subjects and including the earliest known view of London from a distance from the 1620s, and a painting of Corney House and Chiswick by Jacob Knyff, c1670.
The collection concentrates on images of London scenes and places from the 17th century to the present day. It also includes some portraits of Londoners, 18th- and 19th-century genre paintings, and a growing collection of contemporary urban art. Work by amateur or naive painters is included.
Outstanding holdings include: early depictions of London, an important group of views of the Great Fire of London, Victorian genre paintings of London life, topographical prints and drawings, including an important body of early 19th-century watercolours by T. H. Shepherd, 19th-century panoramas of London including The Rhinebeck Panorama of c.1810, works given in 1947 by the War Artists Advisory committee, a large archive of drawings and notebooks by the 20th-century painter and illustrator Grace Golden.
In recent years the Museum has been vigorously expanding its collection of contemporary work. Artists represented include David Hepher, Jock McFadyan, John Bartlett, Oliver Bevan, Timothy Hyman, Dick French. | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | +44 (0)870 444 3853 | Telephone: | +44 (0)870 444 3852 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5325 | Go to resource |
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