James Bisset

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Date:1793

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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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1560s
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1600s
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1620s
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1650s
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1670s
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1700s
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Hans Hysing (Huyssing) (1678-1753) Miss Reynolds, Sister of the Bishop of Lincoln, ...

1770s
Samuel Greatheed
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Richard Houston Samuel Greatheed, 1770 Ink on paper engraving 320mm x 220mm The ...

1790s
Portrait of Mrs Bisset
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C. Richard Portrait of Mrs Bisset, 1798 Oil on canvas 740mm x 630mm A portrait of ...

1810s
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Master Richard Hopton

Unknown artist Master Richard Hopton, 1819 Paper and watercolour on paper 55mm x ...

1840s
Untitled
Untitled

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1860s
Whitnash
Whitnash

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1880s
River And Lighthouse Scene
River And Lighthouse Scene

Richard Gibbs Henry Toovey (1861-1927) River And Lighthouse Scene, 1882 Ink on ...

1900s
Moorland Scene
Moorland Scene

Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938) Moorland Scene, 1903 Watercolour ...

1920s
Middlebere Farm, Poole Harbour, Dorset
Middlebere Farm, Poole Harbour, Dorset

Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938) Middlebere Farm, Poole Harbour, Dorset, ...

1940s
Tregenna Cottage
Tregenna Cottage

Edith C. Reynolds (fl. 1909-1937) Tregenna Cottage, 1946 Watercolour on paper 205mm ...

1960s
Hut Circle
Hut Circle

John Maries Hut Circle, 1967 Oil on canvas 1000mm x 1250mm An abstract painting ...

1980s
Untitled 03
Untitled 03

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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