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The Wallace Collection is a museum in London occupying Hertford House in Manchester Square, the former townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford.It is named after Sir Richard Wallace, who built the extensive collection, along with the Marquesses of Hertford, in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Manchester Square in the 1790s Hertford House, home of the Wallace Collection, viewed from the gardens in Manchester Square. Manchester Square is an 18th-century garden square in Marylebone, London. Centred 950 feet (290 m) north of Oxford Street it measures 300 feet (91 m) internally north-to-south, and 280 feet (85 m) across.
Pierre Adolphe Valette (13 October 1876 – 18 April 1942) was a French Impressionist painter who spent most of his career in England. His most acclaimed paintings are urban landscapes of Manchester, now in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., United States Entrance to the Grand Canal from the Molo, Venice: 1742–1744: National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., United States Entrance to the Grand Canal; Looking East: 1742–1744: Windsor Castle, England The Piazza San Marco, Venice: 1742–1746: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
Manchester Corporation acquired the building in 1938. In 2002, Manchester Art Gallery was extended by Hopkins Architects following an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions to take in the Athenaeum. [1] It is linked to the art gallery by a glass atrium. [2] The Athenaeum is a grade II* listed building. [3]
Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre, England.The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connected buildings, two of which were designed by Sir Charles Barry.
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Piccadilly Gardens is a 1954 oil painting by the English artist L. S. Lowry . It depicts Piccadilly Gardens , a large garden square in Manchester city centre , north-west England.
There are three main versions: a plaster version exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1907; a marble version 175 centimetres (69 in) high exhibited at the academy in 1909 and presented to Manchester Art Gallery by the National Art Collections Fund in 1919; and a bronze casting which was erected by friends of the sculptor from Chelsea Arts Club at ...