Add to ORKGRobert Vernon (1774–1849) and John Sheepshanks (1787–1863) were middle-class English tradesmen Who became major partrons of contemporary British art in the middle years of the nineteenth century. They both donated their substantial collections to the nation with the intention of forming a National Gallery of British Art. Yet today the collections are in two different museums; the Vernon collection can be found primarily in the Tate Gallery and the Sheepshanks collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. In addition to edamining the ‘nationalistic’ commentary that accompanied the Vernon and Sheepshanks gifts, this article will discuss why these rival collections were dispersed to two different sites in London and why, as a result, a true ‘N...
Although the successive establishment of museums in the Victorian era should lead us to believe that...
This paper examines the virtual invisibility of colonial art in British art museums today, despite a...
This article will consider the second half of the nineteenth century as a key era for sculpture; a t...
The Chantrey Bequest, set out in the Will of sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey, was of primary importanc...
he Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen’s club with a singular rem...
In 1806, the wealthy merchant Alexander Davison commissioned eight leading artists to produce painti...
This article introduces the curatorial practice of Sir Frederic Burton, the third director of the Na...
sculptures and nautical curiosities was one of the first ‘national ’ collections to be acquired and ...
This article argues that the press played a key role in defining the Tate Gallery by facilitating a ...
This article brings together the social history of art collections and the history of vision in a di...
Ever since its conception in 1824, the 'much loved friend' in Trafalgar Square has been part of nati...
This thesis examines the art collections of nineteenth-century middle-class collectors to address ov...
During the mid-eighteenth century two museum institutions the British Museum and the Royal Academy o...
During the mid-eighteenth century two museum institutions the British Museum and the Royal Academy o...
Animal and sporting pictures were a major part of British art in the late eighteenth to the early ni...
Although the successive establishment of museums in the Victorian era should lead us to believe that...
This paper examines the virtual invisibility of colonial art in British art museums today, despite a...
This article will consider the second half of the nineteenth century as a key era for sculpture; a t...
The Chantrey Bequest, set out in the Will of sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey, was of primary importanc...
he Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen’s club with a singular rem...
In 1806, the wealthy merchant Alexander Davison commissioned eight leading artists to produce painti...
This article introduces the curatorial practice of Sir Frederic Burton, the third director of the Na...
sculptures and nautical curiosities was one of the first ‘national ’ collections to be acquired and ...
This article argues that the press played a key role in defining the Tate Gallery by facilitating a ...
This article brings together the social history of art collections and the history of vision in a di...
Ever since its conception in 1824, the 'much loved friend' in Trafalgar Square has been part of nati...
This thesis examines the art collections of nineteenth-century middle-class collectors to address ov...
During the mid-eighteenth century two museum institutions the British Museum and the Royal Academy o...
During the mid-eighteenth century two museum institutions the British Museum and the Royal Academy o...
Animal and sporting pictures were a major part of British art in the late eighteenth to the early ni...
Although the successive establishment of museums in the Victorian era should lead us to believe that...
This paper examines the virtual invisibility of colonial art in British art museums today, despite a...
This article will consider the second half of the nineteenth century as a key era for sculpture; a t...
