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The Victoria Art Gallery is a public art museum in Bath, Somerset, England. It was opened in 1900 to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. It is a Grade II* listed building and houses over 1,500 objects of art including a collection of oil paintings from British artists dating from 1700 onwards. The ground floor was at one time a ...
Royal Victoria Park is a public park in Bath, England. It was opened in 1830 by the 11-year-old Princess Victoria, [1] seven years before her ascension to the throne, and was the first park to carry her name. It was privately run as part of the Victorian public park movement until 1921, when it was taken over by the Bath Corporation.
The Holburne Museum (formerly known as the Holburne of Menstrie Museum and the Holburne Museum of Art) is located in Sydney Pleasure Gardens, Bath, Somerset, England.The city's first public art gallery, the Grade I listed building, [1] is home to fine and decorative arts built around the collection of Sir William Holburne.
The Victoria Building, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool. Housing the Victoria Gallery and Museum. The Victoria Gallery & Museum (VG&M) is an art gallery and museum run by the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. [1] [2] [3] VG&M is located in the "redbrick" 1892 Victoria Building. It‘s marked with “THE ORIGINAL REDBRICK” on ...
Including: Bath Theatre Royal, Bristol Old Vic Company, Desperate Men, Old Vic (London), Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, Show of Strength Theatre Company, Theatre Roundabout, Welfare State International, Women's Playhouse Trust, The Critics' Circle, The Gallery First Nighters' Club, National Student Drama Festival, Royal Theatrical Fund ...
The Victorian Artists Society is a gallery and public learning centre offering public exhibitions, art lessons, gallery space for hire, workshops, and paid opportunities for working Victorian artists. [3] Art classes and workshops are offered to a minimum age of 16 and operate in four term sessions a year.
Bath Abbey from the Roman Baths Gallery. Bath Abbey was founded in 1499 [6] on the site of an 8th-century church. [7] The original Anglo-Saxon church was pulled down after 1066, [21] and a grand cathedral dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul was begun on the site by John of Tours, Bishop of Bath and Wells, around 1090; [22] [23] however, only the ambulatory was complete when he died in ...
William Hoare of Bath RA (c. 1707 – 12 December 1792) was a British portraitist, painter and printmaker. From c. 1740 to 1759, he was the leading oil portraitist at Bath, Somerset , until Thomas Gainsborough arrived in the town.