Bowes Museum
City: Barnard Castle
Country: UK
Address: Barnard Castle, County Durham DL12 8NPWebsite: www.bowesmuseum.org.uk Uploaded artworks: 65 Uploaded artist: 46
The museum contains an El Greco, paintings by Francisco Goya, Canaletto, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, François Boucher and a sizable collection of decorative art, ceramics, textiles, tapestries, clocks and costumes, as well as older items from local history. A great attraction is the 18th century Silver Swan automaton, which periodically preens itself, looks round and appears to catch and swallow a fish.
The Bowes Museum was purpose-built as a public art gallery for John Bowes, the illegitimate son of John Bowes the 10th Earl of Strathmore, and Kinghorne, and his wife Joséphine Benoîte, Countess of Montalbo, who both died before it opened in 1892.
It was designed by the French architect Jules Pellechet in a grand French style within landscaped gardens. The building was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "... big bold and incongruous, looking exactly like the town hall of a major provincial town in France. In scale it is just as gloriously inappropriate for the town to which it belongs (and which it gives some international fame) as in style".
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Kinsoen, Francois-Joseph
Portrait of William II of Holland as Prince of Orange
Date: about 1830 Movement: Romanticism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Master, of the Virgo inter Virgines
Crucifixion (left side panel)
Date: ca. 1495 Movement: Renaissance (Northern) Theme: New Testament Technique: Other/Unknown
Kinsoen, Francois-Joseph
Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain
Date: about 1808 - 1813 Movement: Romanticism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Kinsoen, Francois-Joseph
Portrait of Jérome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia
Date: about 1809 - 1813 Movement: Romanticism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Frere, Charles Théodore
View at Siout, Upper Egypt
Date: 1856 Movement: Romanticism Theme: Cityscape Technique: Other/Unknown
Kinsoen, Francois-Joseph
Portrait of Catherine of Würtemberg, Wife of Jerome Bonaparte, King of Westphalia
Date: about 1810 - 1820 Movement: Romanticism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Kinsoen, Francois-Joseph
Portrait of Letitia Raimolini Bonaparte
Date: 1811 Movement: Romanticism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Decamps, Alexandre Gabriel
A monkey playing a lute
Date: Not Dated Movement: Romanticism Theme: Animals Technique: Oil on wood
Vallayer-Coster, Anne
Portrait of an elderly woman with her daughter
Date: 1775 Movement: Rococo Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
Willaerts, Adam
Christ preaching from a ship on the Sea of Galilee
Date: Not dated Movement: Baroque Theme: New Testament Technique: Oil on canvas
Desportes, Alexandre-Francois
Dog and Wild Duck
Date: about 1720 Movement: Baroque Theme: Animals Technique: Oil on canvas
Codazzi, Viviano
Town Scene in Italy with Ancient Ruins
Date: Movement: Baroque Theme: Architecture Technique: Oil on canvas
Sanchez Coello, Alonso
Portrait of Catherine of Austria
Date: Not Dated Movement: Renaissance (Late, Mannerism) Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on wood
Kinsoen, Francois-Joseph
Portrait of the Princess of Orange
Date: 1839 Movement: Romanticism Theme: Portrait Technique: Oil on canvas
