Paintings
The Art Gallery is most noted for its extensive collections of paintings ranging from the 14th to the 21st century. They include works by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the largest collection of works by Edward Burne-Jones in the world. Notable painters in oil include the following:
English School
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- Constable, John - 2 paintings;
- Cox, David - 11 paintings;
- Gainsborough, Thomas - 3 paintings;
- Hogarth, William - 2 paintings;
- Landseer, Sir Edwin - 1 painting;
- Lely, Peter - 2 painting;
- Turner, J M W - 1 painting;
- Bacon, Francis - 1 painting;
- Spencer, Stanley - 3 paintings;
- Lanyon, Peter - 1 painting;
- Heron, Patrick - 1 painting;
- Jones, Allen - 1 painting;
Paintings from the Dutch School include a painting each from Jan van Goyen and Willem van de Velde the Younger.
Flemish School
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- Christus, Petrus - 1 painting;
- Rubens, Peter Paul - 1 painting;
French School
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- Dufrénoy, Georges - 1 painting;
- Dughet, Gaspard - 1 painting;
- Gellée, Claude - 2 painting;
Impressionists
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- Degas, Edgar - 1 painting;
- Pissarro, Camille - 1 painting;
- Renoir, Pierre Auguste - 1 painting;
German School
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- Zoffany, Johan - 1 painting;
Italian School
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- Batoni, Pompeo - 1 painting;
- Bellini, Giovanni - 1 painting;
- Botticelli, Sandro - 1 painting;
- Canaletto, (Giovanni Antonio Canal) - 2 paintings;
- Crespi, Giuseppe - 1 painting;
- Dolci, Carlo - 1 painting;
- il Garofalo, Benvenuto Tisio - 1 painting;
- Gentileschi, Orazio - 1 painting;
- Guardi, Francesco - 1 painting;
- Guercino, (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) - 1 painting;
- Martini, Simone - 1 painting;
- Reni, Guido - 1 painting;
- Rosa, Salvator - 1 painting;
- Schiavone, Andrea - 1 painting;
- Strozzi, Bernardo - 1 painting;
Spanish School
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- Murillo, Bartolomé-Esteban - 1 painting.
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“Not “Seeing is Believing” you ninny, but “Believing is Seeing.” For modern art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this—as in other ways—they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)