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Japonisme: Japan and the Birth of Modern Art
25 May – 28 October 2018 | NGV International | FREE In 1854, Japan opened its borders to international trade following a long period of self-imposed isolatio
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Walter Sickert exercised a significant influence upon British art in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Walter Sickert exercised a significant influence upon British art in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Walter Sickert exercised a significant influence upon British art in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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Walter Sickert exercised a significant influence upon British art in the early decades of the twentieth century.
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frame for 3046
The former framing of At Elizabeth Bay, (1376-4), 1894 amounted to a reduced ‘Whistlerian’ moulding with a linen covered slip, the standard framing used from around 1939 onward for the…
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The earliest images we have of the framing of Streeton Near Heidelberg, 1890, acquired in 1943, shows a composition frame in the style of Louis XIV carrying a John Thallon…
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David Cameron first exhibited paintings at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1886 and went on to have a highly successful career culminating in a knighthood in 1924.
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David Cameron first exhibited paintings at the Royal Scottish Academy in 1886 and went on to have a highly successful career culminating in a knighthood in 1924.
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Tissot here portrays two fashionably dressed young women ignoring a soldier who is engrossed in his own telling of a tale.
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Tissot here portrays two fashionably dressed young women ignoring a soldier who is engrossed in his own telling of a tale.
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Frank Brangwyn was a prolific artist, with a craftsmanlike attitude to his work. He regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy, London from 1885 onwards.
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Frank Brangwyn was a prolific artist, with a craftsmanlike attitude to his work. He regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy, London from 1885 onwards.
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frame for 5470
The frame on Seascape is in the manner of the Whistlerian frames used to modernise the presentation of the Australian painting collection from around 1937.
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The reframing of Madeline Green Glasgow (c.1930) came about by the discovery of a second painting, of a horse, stretched under the image.
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Commissioned by Captain Henry Hill (1818–82)[1], Brighton, 1875 (accepted unfinished after Royal Academy exhibition)[2]; his collection, Brighton, until 1882; Estate of Henry Hill, 1882–89; Henry Hill estate sale, Christie’s, London,…
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Commissioned by Captain Henry Hill (1818–82)[1], Brighton, 1875 (accepted unfinished after Royal Academy exhibition)[2]; his collection, Brighton, until 1882; Estate of Henry Hill, 1882–89; Henry Hill estate sale, Christie’s, London,…
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Ary Scheffer, The Temptation of Christ, (1854) acquired 1886, had been reframed at some time in a wooden profile frame of Whistlerian form, painted white and distressed to expose areas…
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A supply of Californian redwood timber (Sequoia sempervirens) was found in 2006/7 in the form of a plank from the base of a wardrobe in a timber yard in Warnambool….
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frame for 4231
The frame on Night (no.2) appears to be French, most likely from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, recycled to the painting.
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Frame for 5227
Conder’s Rickett’s Point, 1890, purchased 1951, had been reframed some time after purch