Tate Britain at Pimlico London by the bank of the River Thames. It houses 500 years of British paintings From Hogarth to Turner, From Gainsborough to Francis Bacon, the vitality and quality of British art across the centuries shines outfrom the works of the nation’s most famous artists. It is different from Tate Modern that houses the Modern Arts. The collection also included sculpture the well known piece, the Kiss by Rodin. It also has a substantial collection of drawings,watercoours and modern prints. It also have a very large collection of Turners.

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Lady Shalott. 1888 Waterhuse

2. 16C Bettes
This is the oldest painting in
the collection, dated back to
1545 in the 16C.
John Bettes may have worked
with the German painter Han
Holbein. Due to long exposure
to light the hue of the painting
has changed from blue to
brown.

3. 16C Hilliard
He was an apprentice at the
Queen’s goldsmith. In 1572 he
made his first known miniature of
the Queen, gaining her favour.
This painting was painted just a
few years after his miniature.
Nicholas Hilliard was a miniaturist
and this one of the two normal size
he painted.
In style, it is artificial, flat, linear
and shadowless, as the Queen
liked. This gave the Queen the
same visual character as religious
icons. He face is white and almost
inhuman dressed in incredibly and
richly encrusted with gold
embroidery, covered in pearls and
jewels.

4. 17C Unknown

5. 17C Bacon

6. 17C Dobson
Endymion Porter is King Charles I
courtier, acquiring works of art for
the king.

7. 17C Siberechts

8. 18C Hogarth

9. 18C Stubbs

10. 18C Reynold

11. 18C Wright

12. 18C Wilson

13. 18C Jones

14. 18C Copley

15. 18C Gainsborough

16. 18C Zoffany

17. 18C Blake
William Blake (1757-1827) was a
poet, painter, engraver and
printmaker. He earned a meagre a
living by working for a publisher.
In his spare time he produced his own
poems in books, which he made and
published himself engraving the text
and surrounding it with illustrations,
coloured by hand.
In this way he published his works the
‘Song of Innocent’ (1789) and the
‘Songs of Experience’ (1794). These
are his most important works.
This frontispiece also known as ‘The
Ancient of Days’ was published on his
work ‘Europe a Prophecy’ (1794).

18. 19C Lawrence
Thomas Lawrence was a successful English
portraitist, who painted the rich and famous of his time.
He was also the president of the Royal Society.
One of his well known painting - Pinkie.

19. 18C Turner

20. 18C Turner

21. 19C Constable

22. 19C Constable

23. 18C Simpson
This is probably the portrait of the
actor Ira Frederick Aldridge. John
Simpson also painted Aldridge again
in another painting.
The Slave trade was made illegal in
1807 in Britain but continued in British
colonies in the 1830s.

24. 19C Cooper

25. 19C EM Ward

26. 19C Dadd

27. 19C Millias

28. 19C Millias

29. 19C Hunt

30. 19C Hunt
“This picture depicted a wealth man
visiting his mistress in an
apartment for her. The tune he idly
plays on the piano reminded her of
her past and she rises from his lap
toward the bright outside world,
(made visible to the viewers in the
mirror). The claustrophobic space
is filled with intricate clues, such as
the bird trying to escape from the
cat and the female figure enclosed
in a glass dome, which echoes the
shape of the painting.” NB Tate Gallery
Highlights guide.
William Holman Hunt was one of
the pre-Raphaelites.

31. 19C Seddon

32. 19C Frith

33. 19C Wallis

34. 19C Leighton

35. 19C Rosseti
Dante Gabriel Rosseti was
also a pre-Raphaelites.
He was a poet and painter, a
son of an Italian refugee in
London. He studied under
Holman Hunt
The painting refers to
passages in the Bible Song of
Songs and Psalm 45.
“My beloved is mine and I am
his. Let him kiss me with
kisses of his mouth: for thy
love is better than wine”.

36. 19C Lewis

37. 19C Sargent

38. 19C Sargent

39. 19C Burne-Jones
Left - The Golden
Stairs 1880.
Right – King Cophetua
and Beggar Maid 1884.

40. 19C Waterhouse

41. 19C Van Gogh
The gallery also has a small collection of paintings from non-British artists.

42. 19C Gauguin

43. 20C Rodin

44. 20C G John
Gwen John trained at the
Slade School of Art, now part
of the University College of
London. This painting was
painted soon after she left.
She was exceptional in
establishing a successful
artistic career.
Gwen John grew up in Walsh
but lived most of her life in
France.

45. 20C A John
Augustus Edwin John (1979-1961)
was the brother of Gwen John, also
a painter. He also studies at the
Slade School of Art.
He was strongly influenced by Puvis
de Chavannes and Post
Impressionism. This is one of his
brilliant portrait based on grand
manner tradition, enliven by a semi-
Impressionist handling, high in
colour tone but solidity of drawing.

46. 20C Freud

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