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Art UK is a cultural, education charity in the United Kingdom, [1] previously known as the Public Catalogue Foundation. Since 2003, it has digitised more than 300,000 paintings, sculptures and other artworks by more than 53,700 artists.
The oldest surviving British art includes Stonehenge from around 2600 BC, and tin and gold works of art produced by the Beaker people from around 2150 BC. The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular "Insular Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs ...
Maude Goodman (1853–1938) (a.k.a. Matilda Scanes) – English Victorian fine art painter and children's book illustrator, Romantic genre paintings; Caroline Gotch (1854–1945) – English painter associated with the Newlyn School of artists; Walter Dendy Sadler (1854–1923) – English painter; Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) – Cornish ...
The contemporary art market in London had dramatically collapsed in mid-1990 due to a major economic recession, and many commercial contemporary galleries had gone out of business. Saatchi had until this time collected mostly American and German contemporary art, some by young artists, but most by already established ones.
Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day. As such, it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world (only the Yale Center for British Art can claim similar expansiveness, but with less depth). [citation needed] More recent artists include David Hockney, Peter Blake and Francis Bacon. Works ...
Athena is a British art retailer and retail chain, which was founded in 1964.Today it sells fine art prints from a variety of UK artists. However it is best known for its iconic posters such as L'Enfant (a picture of a muscular man cradling a baby), The Lord of the Rings from 1976 by Jimmy Cauty, [1] the Tennis Girl poster from 1976 [2] and "Beyond City Limits", published in the 1990s.
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The Art and Antiques Unit was established in 1969. [3] It was dissolved and reformed in the mid-1980s, a second time after the 2005 London Bombings and again following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. [4] [5] The unit maintains the London Stolen Arts Database (LSAD), containing details of thousands of items of stolen cultural property. [6]