Date:1793
Description:
Unknown artist
James Bisset, 1793
Oil on canvas
740mm x 615mm
James Bisset (1761 - 1832) was one of the key figures in the development of Leamington as a spa town. He was born in Scotland but moved to Leamington in 1812 where he established a library, newsroom, museum and picture gallery on Clemens Street. In 1819 he built a new museum on the High Street where he housed his Collection of Curiosities. Bisset also promoted the town through verse and in his Descriptive Guide of Leamington Priors, 1814.
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Pierre Quesnel (formerly attributed to) (fl. 1561-1580) Portrait of Dorothy Shirley, ...
Jan Josephsz van Goyen (after) Landscape with Bridge, 1600-1900 Oil on panel 158mm ...
Anthony van Dyck (after) (1599-1641) Untitled, 1621 - 1700 Oil on canvas 1130mm ...
Unknown artist Gay Company, 1640 Oil on board 407mm x 600mm View of a domestic interior ...
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (After) (1589-1662) Cavalcade of the Princes of Nassau, ...
Godfried Schalcken (1643 - 13th November 1706) Self Portrait by Candlelight, 1695 ...
Jan Baptist Morel (attributed to) Garland of Flowers, 1720-1730 Oil on canvas 435mm ...
Richard Houston Samuel Greatheed, 1770 Ink on paper engraving 320mm x 220mm The ...
C. Richard Portrait of Mrs Bisset, 1798 Oil on canvas 740mm x 630mm A portrait of ...
Catherine Homer Lord Aylesford's Well, 1815 Watercolour on paper 180mm x 265mm The ...
Hokugan (fl. 1816-1832) Untitled 1832 Ink on paper 355mm x 240mm The Kabuki ...
Utagawa Kunisada (Toyokuni III) (1786-1864) Untitled, 1849 Ink on paper oban colour ...
Edwin Toovey (1826-1906) Untitled, July 1866 Watercolour on paper 330mm x 520mm ...
Rosario Aspa (1827-1905) On The Leam, 1883 Watercolour on paper 310mm x 275mm The ...
Edmund Morison Wimperis (1835-1900) Windmill, 1900 Watercolour on paper 340mm x ...
Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938) Hayfield, 1918 Oil on canvas 200mm ...
T.H. Ravenhill Snowdon From Mochras, 1935 Watercolour on paper 240mm x 335mm The ...
Ivon Sidney Hitchens (1893-1979) Green Walks, Summer: No 2 Oil on canvas 450mm x ...
Cecil Collins (1908-1989) Landscape, Autumn Wood, 1970 Oil on board 240mm x 285mm ...
Sir Terry Frost (13th October 1915 - 1 September 2003) Untitled 03, 1989 Hand-painted ...
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Donor ref: LEAMG : A829.1992 (64/24428)
Source: Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum
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