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unusual facts about British art



Walpole Society

The Walpole Society, named after Horace Walpole, was formed in 1911 to promote the study of the history of British art.


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Alisma

The nineteenth century British art and social critic John Ruskin believed that the particular curve of the leaf-ribs of Alisma represented a model of 'divine proportion' and helped shape his theory of Gothic architecture.

Andrew Dixon

Andrew Graham-Dixon (born 1960), British art historian and broadcaster

Błaszczyk

Iwona Blazwick, British art critic, director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery

Cyprus College of Art

Almost all of the programmes taught at the College follow a British art education model, and several are validated in the United Kingdom by the British validation agency Ascentis.

Daniel Silver

Group exhibitions include Dustcatcher, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv (2012); We Will Live, We Will See, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2011); No New Thing Under the Sun, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2010); and Newspeak: British Art Now, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg and Saatchi Gallery, London (2009).

Donald Rodney

The works of Rodney and Piper, alongside Eddie Chambers, Marlene Smith and Claudette Johnson became recognised as a distinct movement within British art, whose attachments were to social and political narratives.

Frederick Stevens

Frederic George Stephens (1828–1907), British art critic and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Harold Taylor

Harold McCarter Taylor (1907–1995), New Zealand-born British art historian, mathematician, and physicist

Henry Gladwin

Thomas's wife is depicted as one of the daughters in the portrait circa 1754 of the Gravenor family by Thomas Gainsborough "John and Ann Gravenor, with their daughters" now in the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conneticut, Paul Mellon Collection.

Jan Hoynck van Papendrecht

He was recruited by the British art weekly The Graphic to make sketches of delegates to the Hague Conventions, in addition to the portraits of soldiers that he already published in it.

John Whiteley

Jon Whiteley (b. 1945), British art historian; former child actor

Leonard Lauder

Much of his art comes from some of the world’s most celebrated collections, including those of Gertrude Stein, the Swiss banker Raoul La Roche, and the British art historian Douglas Cooper.

Matt Salinger

Salinger's maternal grandfather was British art critic Robert Langton Douglas.

Peter Peri

He has also shown at Art Now at Tate Britain in April 2007, the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland in September 2006 and his work was shown at Tate Britain's "Classified" and the Arts Council Collection's How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art at the Hayward Gallery, London.

Primavera Gallery

Henry Rothschild of the Rothschild family founded Primavera in 1945 in Sloane Street, London, in order to promote and retail contemporary British art and craft.

Richard Shone

Shone curated several exhibitions dedicated to British art, such as Walter Sickert’s portraits at the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath (1990); a full Sickert retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (1992–93, with Wendy Baron); The Art of Bloomsbury for the Tate Gallery, London (1999).

Stephen Finer

Finer participated in "British Art from the Arts Council Collection 1940-80" at the Hayward Gallery, 'Collazione Inglese ll' at the Venice Biennale and was in the touring exhibition, 'Men on Women', 'The Portrait Now' at the National Portrait Gallery and 'Painting the Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000' held to celebrate the millennium also at the National Portrait Gallery, where his portrait of David Bowie is in the permanent collection.

Tate

The original Tate art gallery was called the National Gallery of British Art, situated on Millbank, Pimlico, London at the site of the former Millbank Prison.