- Wikidata identifier:
- Q29364902
- Part of:
- Scarborough Museums and Galleries
- Instance of:
- art museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 28
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q29364902/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Fine Art Collection
Greater part by local artists and scenes and events; also Laughton Collection, but works by Atkinson Grimshaw, H.B. Carter, Frank Mason, Ernest Dade, Lord Leighton, Ivon Hitchens, Matthew Smith, Edward Bawden and Eric Ravilious.
There are approximately sixty portraits (in oils) in Scarborough Art Gallery’s collection. Most of these are portraits of Scarborough Mayors and MP’s, from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, which are of local significance. Highlights in the portraiture collection include four highly accomplished portraits by John Jackson, including a Self Portrait produced around 1810. We also have two miniature portraits, painted on ivory. Other interesting portraits include John Brewster Darley, 1744 by Philippe Mercier and Richard Darley, 1783 Attributed to Thomas Gainsborough.; Scarborough Art Gallery.
Subjects
Fine Art
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC