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 ...
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 ...
Thomas Baker (1808-1864) Matlock, 1855 Oil on canvas 390mm x 570mm A view of Monsale ...
Henry Stanier (fl. 1847-1884, died 1892) Eastern Bazaar, 1874 Watercolour on paper ...
Frederick Cayley Robinson (18th August 1862 - 4th January 1927) In a Wood so Green, ...
Frederick William Newton Whitehead (1853-1938) Llaugharne Castle, South Wales, ...
Sir William Rothenstein (1872-1945) The Cottage Window, 1931 Pastel on paper 300mm ...
Harold Barron D.T. Brock, c. 1950-1960 Oil on canvas 800mm x 675mm A portrait painting ...
Cecil Collins (1908-1989) Landscape, 1969 Oil on board 290mm x 340mm Donated by ...
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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