A Catalogue of the National Gallery of British Art at South Kensington: With a Supplement Containing Works by Modern Foreign Artists and Old MastersEyre and Spottiswoode, 1893 - Artists |
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ABBEY Academician afterwards Bequeathed Bequest Bethnal Green Bethnal Green Museum BOATS born in London Bought BRIDGE British Artists British Institution buried Canvas CASTLE Catalogue of Oil CATHEDRAL CATTLE Chalk CHARLES CHURCH circulation COAST SCENE colour COTTAGE Crayon dated Dixon Bequest Bethnal drawings Dyce Bequest Dyce Catalogue elected A.R.A. elected an Associate Ellison Gift enamel engraver exhibited exhibitor FEMALE FIGURES foreground Forster Bequest FRANCE GEORGE GIRL Given by Sir HAMPSTEAD HENRY HOUSE illustrated India ink Italian Italy JOHN John Varley Jones Bequest LADY LANDSCAPE Living Painter master Millboard Miniature on ivory Miss Mulready National Gallery oblong Oil Paintings Panel Parsons Bequest Pencil picture portrait painter practised Prescott Hewett Gift pupil Queen Rome Royal Academy School Sheepshanks Gift Signed Sir Joshua Walmsley SKETCH Society of Artists Street studied subjects THOMAS tion Townshend Bequest TREES upright VIEW WALES Water-Colour Society William Smith Bequest William Smith Gift young
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