1,769 artworks by 671 artists
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'Chaku', First Year Goshawk Richard Barrie Treleaven (1920–2009)
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Hen 'Merlin' on the Moors Richard Barrie Treleaven (1920–2009)
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Sheep Shearing in Baldersdale, County Durham John Thomas Young Gilroy (1898–1985)
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The Bowes Museum from the Kitchen Gardens of Barnard Castle School, County Durham Douglas Frederick Pittuck (1911–1993)
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Dorset Moorland Oliver Hall (1869–1957)
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Portrait of a Lady Dutch School
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Portrait of a Lady at Her Toilet Table, Dressed in a Peignoir French School
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The Bowes Museum, built in the style of a French château and set in the beautiful countryside of County Durham, is a striking architectural feature which houses John and Joséphine Bowes' magnificent collection of European and decorative arts. The Designated collections, which span the 14th to 19th centuries, include important paintings by Sassetta, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and François Boucher.
In 1862 the couple purchased some 75 Spanish paintings from the Condesa de Quinto in Paris. This group includes works by El Greco and Francisco de Goya and now forms the nucleus of the Museum’s important collection of Spanish paintings.
Joséphine Bowes, a talented and dedicated painter, was a keen collector of contemporary French paintings. She purchased works by major French artists such as Gustave Courbet, Henri Fantin-Latour, Eugène Louis Boudin and Aldophe Monticelli.
The Bowes Museum continues to acquire works of art to complement the Founders’ Collection and has added two fine works by Canaletto and paintings by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, George Frederic Watts and Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer to the collection.