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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Jan Josephsz van Goyen (after) Landscape with Bridge, 1600-1900 Oil on panel 158mm ...
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Jan Baptist Morel (attributed to) Garland of Flowers, 1720-1730 Oil on canvas 435mm ...
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Richard Parkes Bonington (after) (1802-1828) On the Normandy Coast, 1817-1819 Oil ...
Thomas Baker (1808-1864) Landscape with River and Sheep, 1836 Oil on canvas 250mm ...
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Sir Bernard Partridge (1861-1945) Figures In Eighteenth Century Costume, 1890 Watercolour ...
Frederick Cayley Robinson (18th August 1862 - 4th January 1927) Reminiscence, 1908 ...
Duncan James Corrour Grant (1885-1978) Portrait Of An Old Lady, 1926 Oil on canvas ...
Sir Terry Frost (13th October 1915 - 1 September 2003) Prisoner of War, 21st March ...
Alexander MacKenzie GR (1879-1963) Lakedown, 1962 Oil on board 675mm x 480mm An ...
Sir Terry Frost (13th October 1915 - 1 September 2003) 3 Graces, c.1980 Etching ...
Sir Terry Frost (13th October 1915 - 1 September 2003) Swing Red Newlyn, 1998 Screenprint ...
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Donor ref: LEAMG : A829.1992 (64/24428)
Source: Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum
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