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A Curator's Office was established in 1981. The budget to acquire new works was £75,000 in 2019. Separately, the Speaker's Art Fund is a charity founded in 1929 which acquires works of art for the House of Commons. Examples of works from the Parliamentary Art Collection
Devolved Parliament is a 2009 oil-on-canvas painting by Banksy, replacing British politicians debating in the House of Commons with chimpanzees.In 2019, the artwork became Banksy's most costly to date, selling for £9.9 million ($12.2 million) at Sotheby's in London on October 3, 2019.
It depicts a session of the Irish House of Commons in the Parliament House in Dublin. Throughout the eighteenth century Ireland and Great Britain maintained separate, sister Parliaments until the Act of Union of 1801.The Whig Henry Grattan , a leader of the Patriot movement, is shown on the right of the table submitting a motion that the ...
The Lobby of the House of Commons (1886) by 'Lib'. Liborio Prosperi ('Lib') a.k.a. Liberio Prosperi (Foligno, Papal States 1854 – Foligno, 1928), was a Papal States-born artist who belonged to a group of international artists producing caricatures for the British Vanity Fair magazine.
Parliamentary copyright is a form of copyright in works made by either of the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom: the House of Lords or the House of Commons. It also applies to bills proposed in either House and to the devolved legislatures in the United Kingdom: the Scottish Parliament , Northern Ireland Assembly or Senedd ...
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The bartop in the Strangers' Bar. The Strangers' Bar is one of several bars in the Palace of Westminster, the home of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It is open to Members of Parliament and officers of Parliament, their guests, and members of parliamentary staff, [1] situated near the House of Commons, the bar often features ales and other beverages from small breweries across the UK.
The House of Commons, 1793–94 is a large history painting by the Austrian artist Anton Hickel. [1] It was first exhibited in 1795 in the Haymarket . It depicts the House of Commons of the Parliament of Great Britain around the time of the country's first involvement in the French Revolutionary Wars .