Saturday, December 12, 2009

The British Museum of Art

The top floor exhibit had pieces from the 17th-18th centuries. Most of the paintings were oil on canvas, and featured the following artists: John Glover, Samuel Scott, J.M.W. Turner, John Singleton Copley, Allan Ramsay, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Wilton, George Beare, Philip Mercier, Sir Anthony Van Dyck, John Martin, Willem Wissing, Simon Verest, and Joseph Wright of Derby.

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The first floor with exhibits housed pieces primarily from the 1600's to the 1700's. The artsists for the following pieces are John Stevens, George Stubbs, John Closterman, John Vanderbank, Philippe Mercier, Joseph Wright of Derby, and Sir Joshua Reynolds.












The British Art Museum is located in downtone New Haven, CT on the Yale University Campus. It has three floors of exhibits. Most of the exhibits are opene xhibits; however, there are currently 2 private exhibits in which pictures were not allowed. The first exhibit was entitled "Mrs. Delany and Her Circle". Mrs. Delany was a letter writer, ametuer artist, woman of fashion, and a naturalist. Many of the pieces that Mrs. Delany created were of flowers and plants. Many of the pieces exhibited were done in a collage style. The works of art were primarily from the 19th century, and the exhibit was organized by the Yale Center for British Art and Sir John Soane's Museum in London.
The second private exhibit was a collection from Horace Walpole entitled "Strawberry Hill." Many of the pieces in the collection were from the 15th- 18th century. The artists with pieces in the collection are Paul Sandby, John Philipps, Johann Heinrich Muntz, John Giles Eccardt, Marcus Geeraerts, John Carter, Edward Edwards, William Faithorne, Jean Antoine Watteau, Richard Bentley, and Hendrick Danckerts.



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