Lear first visited Ithaca, in the Ionian Islands, in 1848 and returned in 1863 to make sketches for his publication, ‘Views in the Seven Ionian Islands’. He was impressed by the ‘immense views’ from ...

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The first of five ‘Blaze’ paintings, Blaze 1 is an important early work by Bridget Riley. It was first displayed in London 1963 and is one of the works for which Riley became internationally ...

The Scott sisters were friends of the painters Eric Robertson and his wife Cecile Walton. Robertson was a Quaker and so would not take up arms. In August 1916, he left for France to join the Friends ...

Sir John Lavery Edward Arthur Walton, 1860 - 1922. Artist. With his fiancée Helen Law, 1859 – 1945 (Hokusai and the Butterfly) Dated 1889 At this date Glasgow was second city of the Empire, home to a ...

This painting, which dates from 1888 and was made in Pont-Aven, Brittany, is one of Gauguin's most famous works. The Breton women, dressed in distinctive regional costume, have just listened to a ...

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This enormous sculpture by Mueck measures just over five metres in length and captures a newly delivered baby in her first glimpse of the surrounding world. Mueck exploits scale to affect the viewer’s ...

Frances Walker was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland and studied at Edinburgh College of Art. Soon after graduating Walker taught in the Western Isles and was appointed lecturer in drawing and painting at ...