- Wikidata identifier:
- Q5674790
- Part of:
- Hartlepool Borough Council
- Instance of:
- art museum; local museum; local authority museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1776
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q5674790/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Fine Art
The Fine Art collection is mainly Victorian and Edwardian oils and is based on the donation by Sir William C. Gray. Subsequent additions to the collection have been works by local living artists or artists who lived locally at some stage in their life. The watercolour collection is comprehensive and has early works. Artists include TM Richardson Snr and Jnr, J W Beavis, David Cox, John Varley, Myles Birkett Foster, FH Mason and James Clark. The print collection is wide in variety and comprehensive to be of regional significance and includes artists limited editions and topographical views of the town. The majority of the pastels are by RL Howey of Seaton Carew. There are a few drawings and these include a Stanley Spencer and an LS Lowry. The extensive John Wood Collection of printer’s work includes ephemera relating to mines and coal transport.
Portraiture
Hartlepool has a small but locally important collection of portraits. These most relate to those who service in local politics, or were important in the economic development of the town such as shipbuilder Sir William Gray. There are also pieces depicting local characters and artists. The collection includes paintings, sculpture, etchings and drawings.
Costume
The costume collection is mainly 1900 – 1960 and includes male and female clothing, children’s, underclothes, babies clothing, accessories, civic regalia and uniforms.
Decorative Art
The Decorative Arts collections are very small and include glass, silver, pewter, ceramics and the oriental collections and the latter apart appear to be the result of passive collecting. Oriental material is from the Middle and Far East and from different periods and includes Indian religious figures, Indian dolls, Indo-Chinese images of Buddha, Japanese netsuke, armour and Arms and a large collection of Chinese ‘Famille Rose’ Batavian ware porcelain. Ceramic collection includes many types of English pottery, a little oriental porcelain and some European porcelain.
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC