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Publication Received
Bertrand’s Toyshop in Bath: Luxury Retailing 1685–1765. By Vanessa Brett.
11/2016 | 1364 | 158
Pages: 912
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Reviewer:
Zech, Heike (Zech, Heike)
Subjects
dates:
1660-1719 / 1720-1729 / 1730-1739 / 1740-1749 / 1750-1779
places:
Great Britain / Bath
subjects:
Toys (recreational artifacts) / Merchants / Biographies / Cultural history / History / British
Exhibition Review
Julian Opie
09/2014 | 1338 | 156
Pages: 617-619
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Reviewer:
Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)
Subjects
artists:
Opie, Julian
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Holburne Museum, Bath, Great Britain / Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, Great Britain
places:
Bath / England
places:
Barnard Castle
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
50. Imogen, by Julian Opie. 2013. Continuous digital animation on a 55 inch LCD screen. (Courtest of the artist; exh. Holburne Museum Bath).
Attributed works:
51. Portrait bust of Christoph Willibald von Gluck, from the studio of Jean-Antoine Houdon. 1775. Terracotta, 52.7 cm. high. (Julian Opie collection; exh. Holburne Museum, Bath).
Attributed works:
52. At home with Maria II, by Julian Opie. 2011. Inkjet print on canvas, 202 by 141 cm. (Courtesy of the artist; exh. Holburne Museum, Bath).
Attributed works:
53. Portrait of Wilson Gale Braddyll, by Joshua Reynolds. 1788. Panel, 76 by 63.4 cm. (Julian Opie collection; exh. Holburne Museum, Bath).
Attributed works:
54. Unwelcome visitors, by Tessa Farmer. 2014. Dessicated insect remains and dried plant root. (Courtesy of the artist; exh. Holburne Museum, Bath).
Exhibition Review
Joseph Wright of Derby
05/2014 | 1334 | 156
Pages: 338-339
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Reviewer:
Hopkinson, Martin (Hopkinson, Martin; Hopkinson, Martin)
Subjects
artists:
Wright of Derby, Joseph, painter, 1734-1797
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Holburne Museum, Bath, Great Britain / Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, Great Britain
places:
Bath / Derby / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Illustrations
Attributed works:
53. Maria, from Sterne, by Joseph Wright of Derby (Private collection; exh. Holburne Museum, Bath)
Attributed works:
54. View of Cicero's villa, Pozzuoli, by Joseph Wright of Derby (Private collection, on loan to the Trustees of the Barber Institute, Birmingham; exh. Holburne Museum, Bath)
Attributed works:
55. The Rev. Henry Case, later Case-Morewood, by Joseph Wright of Derby (National Trust, Hatchlands Park, Guildford; exh. Holburne Museum, Bath)
Exhibition Review
William Scott. Bath
09/2013 | 1326 | 155
Pages: 640-642
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Reviewer:
Treves, Toby (Treves, Toby)
Subjects
artists:
Scott, William, 1913-1989
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Great Britain
places:
England / Bath
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Exhibition Review
Portrait sculpture. Bath
10/2012 | 1315 | 154
Pages: 723-724
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Reviewer:
Padiyar, Satish (Padiyar, Satish)
Subjects
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Holburne Museum, Bath, Great Britain
places:
Bath / England
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Portraits / Sculpture
Illustrations
Attributed works:
55. Mask II, by Ron Mueck. 2001-02. Mixed media, 77 by 118 by 85 cm. (Anthony d'Offay, London; exh. Holburne Museum, Bath).
Western art unattributed:
56. Plaster cast of the death mask of Sir Thomas Lawrence, by an unknown artist. 1830. Plaster, 44.5 by 51.5 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London; exh. Holburne Museum, Bath).
Exhibition Review
Gainsborough’s landscapes. Bath and Compton Verney
12/2011 | 1305 | 153
Pages: 837-838
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Reviewer:
Belsey, Hugh (Belsey, Hugh)
Subjects
artists:
Gainsborough, Thomas
dates:
2010-2019
museums and institutions:
Holburne Museum, Bath, Great Britain / Compton Verney, nr Kineton, Warwickshire, Great Britain
places:
Bath / England / Warwickshire
print:
Gainsborough, Thomas
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Landscapes (visual works)
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gainsborough’s Landscapes: Themes and Variations | institution: Compton Verney , institution: Holburne Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
67. Wooded landscape with figure and cattle, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1770–75. Watercolour and oil on two sheets of paper laid down on canvas, 43 by 58 cm. (The Hepworth Wakefield; exh. Holburne Museum, Bath).
Attributed works:
68. Wooded landscape with horseman travelling along a country track, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1775–80. Black, white and coloured chalks on blue-grey paper, 25.4 by 31.4 cm. (Tate, London; exh. Holburne Museum, Bath).
Attributed works:
69. Two girls with bundles of sticks, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1785–88. Black and white chalk with stump, 25.4 by 30.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Holburne Museum, Bath).
Exhibition Review
Twentieth-century British art. Norwich, Sheffield, Chichester and Bath
05/2007 | 1250 | 149
Pages: 345-347
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Reviewer:
Beechey, James (Beechey, James)
Subjects
artists:
Knight, Laura / Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri / Roberts, William, 1895-1980 / Vaughan, Keith
dates:
2000-2009
museums and institutions:
Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, Great Britain / Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain / Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich, Great Britain / Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge, Great Britain / Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, Great Britain / Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Great Britain / Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Great Britain
places:
Bath / Cambridge / Chichester / England / Newcastle-upon-Tyne / Nottingham / Norwich / Sheffield
print:
British art
print:
Twentieth-century art
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions
Reviewed Items
subjects:
From Victorian to Modern. Innovation and Tradition in the Work of Vanessa Bell, Gwen John and Laura Knight | institution: Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery
subjects:
Keith Vaughan: Figure and Landscape | institution: Victoria Art Gallery
subjects:
WE the moderns: Gaudier-Brzeska and the birth of modern sculpture | institution: Graves Art Gallery
subjects:
William Roberts: England at Play | institution: Pallant House Gallery
Illustrations
Attributed works:
44. The beach, by Laura Knight. 1909. Canvas, 127.6 by 153.2 cm. (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; exh. Castle Museum, Norwich).
Attributed works:
45. Studland beach (The bathers), by Vanessa Bell. 1911–12. Oil on board, 63.5 by 76.2 cm. (Private collection; exh. Castle Museum, Norwich).
Attributed works:
46. Seated woman, by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. 1914. Marble, 47 by 34.5 by 28 cm. (Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; exh. Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield).
Attributed works:
47. Woman combing her hair, by Pablo Picasso. 1906. Crayon and charcoal on paper, 55.5 by 40 cm. (Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection, University of East Anglia, Norwich; exh. Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield).
Attributed works:
48. The cinema, by William Roberts. 1920. Canvas 91.4 by 72.6 cm. (Tate, London; exh. Pallant House Gallery, Chichester).
Attributed works:
49. Finistère, group of fishermen, by Keith Vaughan. 1951. Oil on board, 91.4 by 71.1 cm. (Private collection; exh. Victoria Art Gallery, Bath).
Exhibition Review
Pictures of Innocence. Bath and Kendal.
09/2005 | 1230 | 147
Pages: 631-632
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Reviewer:
Kidson, Alex (Kidson, Alex)
Subjects
dates:
2000-2009
dates:
1700-1799 / 1800-1829
museums and institutions:
Holburne Museum, Bath, Great Britain / Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Great Britain
places:
Bath / England / Kendal
print:
Portraits
subjects:
Reviews / Exhibitions / Portraits / Children
subjects:
British painting
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Pictures of Innocence: Portraits of Children from Hogarth to Lawrence | institution: Abbot Hall Art Gallery , institution: Holburne Museum
Illustrations
Attributed works:
61. Sir Robert and Lady Buxton with their daughter Anne, by Henry Walton. 1786. 73.6 by 92.5 cm. (Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery: exh. Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal).
Attributed works:
62. A boy reading, by Joshua Reynolds. 1777. 76.2 by 36.5 cm. (Private collection; exh. Abbiot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal).
Short Notice
Sitting to Gainsborough at Bath in 1760
05/1997 | 1130 | 139
Pages: 325-328
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Author:
Sloman , Susan (Sloman , Susan; Legouix, Susan; Sloman, Susan Legouix; Sloman, Susan)
Subjects
artists:
Gainsborough, Thomas
dates:
1700-1799
places:
England / Bath
subjects:
British painting / Portraits
Illustrations
Attributed works:
38. George Lucy, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1760. 76.2 by 63.5 cm. (National Trust, Charlecote Park).
Attributed works:
39. George Lucy, by Thomas Gainsborough. 1760. 76.2 by 63.5 cm. (National Trust, Charlecote Park).
Attributed works:
40. George Lucy, by Pompeo Batoni. 1758. 132 by 97 cm. (National Trust, Charlecote Park).
Exhibition Review
Matthew Smith. Bath, Victoria Art Gallery
04/1996 | 1117 | 138
Pages: 267-268
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Reviewer:
Shone, Richard (Shone, Richard; S., R.; Shone, Richard)
Subjects
artists:
Smith, Matthew, 1879-1959
dates:
1990-1999
museums and institutions:
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Great Britain
places:
England / Bath
subjects:
Exhibitions / Reviews
Illustrations
Attributed works:
49. Vera in a Yellow Dress, by Matthew Smith. c.1923-26. 61 by 50.5 cm. (Corporation of London Collection; Exh. Victoria Art Gallery, Bath).
Attributed works:
50. Nude with a Blue Pillow, by Matthew Smith. c.1922-23. 65.4 by 80.6 cm. (Corporation of London Collection; Exh. Victoria Art Gallery, Bath).
Attributed works:
51. Still Life with Yellow Fish, by Matthew Smith. c.1952-55. Hardboard, 152.4 by 114.3 cm. (Corporation of London; Exh. Victoria Art Gallery, Bath).
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