Oil paintings in public ownership in Bristol
By: funding patron, The Mercers' Company ; coordinators, Caroline Nicholson and Alexandria Smith ; photographer, Dan Brown
Contributors: Mercers' Company (London, England)
Series: The Mercers' series; Oil paintings in public ownership; Mercers' series; Oil paintings in public ownership
Publisher: The Public Catalogue Foundation
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9781909475120
Subjects: Art museums; Catalogs; Painting; Ölmalerei; Sammlung; Art; Catalogues; Musées; Peinture; Collectionneurs et collections
Description: This catalogue brings together over 2,300 oil paintings from 10 publicly-owned collections across Bristol. The largest collection reproduced is Bristol Museum and Art Gallery with over 1,200 paintings spanning Northern and Italian Renaissance painting, Baroque to modern French art, and British painting from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first. The collection tells the story of art in Bristol and internationally. Also catalogued are the holdings of the Royal West of England Academy, the Society of Merchant Venturers and the University of Bristol.--http://www.thepcf.org.uk.
Notes: Includes index.