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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Hans Hysing (Huyssing) (1678-1753) Miss Reynolds, Sister of the Bishop of Lincoln, ...
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Unknown artist Master Richard Hopton, 1819 Paper and watercolour on paper 55mm x ...
Gountei Sadahide (1808-1873) Untitled, c.1840 Ink on paper 330mm x 225mm The ...
Thomas Baker (1808-1864) Whitnash, 1861 Oil on canvas 520mm x 420mm Cows grazing ...
Richard Gibbs Henry Toovey (1861-1927) River And Lighthouse Scene, 1882 Ink on ...
Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938) Moorland Scene, 1903 Watercolour ...
Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938) Middlebere Farm, Poole Harbour, Dorset, ...
Edith C. Reynolds (fl. 1909-1937) Tregenna Cottage, 1946 Watercolour on paper 205mm ...
John Maries Hut Circle, 1967 Oil on canvas 1000mm x 1250mm An abstract painting ...
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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