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Leicester Museums and Galleries
The Railway Station (detail), oil on canvas by Frith, William Powell, 1819–1909, photo credit: Leicester Museums and Galleries
This is one of Hogarth's most ambitious early works. It features 17 men and women relaxing in a sumptuous interior. The draperies show that the house is in mourning, while the assembled company indulges in conversation, games and the drinking of tea.
A typical Hogarth touch is the mischievous little pug in the foreground, looking straight at the viewer. This is possibly Hogarth’s own dog – he owned at least three pugs in his lifetime, one of them called Trump.
The exquisite Baroque interior is most likely to be the Wollaston family’s London residence in Charterhouse Square. The bust on the mantelpiece probably represents the recently deceased Charlton Wollaston, with the family dressed in 'half-mourning' (sober, often dark-coloured clothing).
Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, managed by Leicester Museums and Galleries, has changing displays of Modern and Old Masters, alongside permanent galleries of Lord Attenborough’s Picasso Ceramics and German Expressionist art, one of the most notable collections outside of Germany.
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Herberte, Edward Benjamin, active 1857–1893
A Little Cornish Fisherman
Reid, John Robertson, 1851–1926
A Martyr
Bembo, Bonifazio, c.1420–1482
A Music Party
Horemans the younger, Jan Josef , 1714–1790
A Neapolitan Child
Anderson, Sophie, 1823–1903
A Venetian Courtship
de Blaas, Eugene, 1843–1931
A Wayside Madonna
Morley, Harry, 1881–1943
A Whip for Van Tromp, the Admiralty
Lucas, John Seymour, 1849–1923
At the Opera
Dicksee, Thomas Francis, 1819–1895
Bords du Loir
Maufra, Maxime, 1861–1918
Boy with a Hoop
Opie, John, 1761–1807
Breton Children, Pont Aven, France
Forbes-Robertson, Eric, 1865–1935
Carl Ludwig Elias, Aged 7 1/4
Corinth, Lovis, 1858–1925
Carting for Farmer, Pengelly, Cornwall
Hook, James Clarke, 1819–1907
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Steer, Henry Reynolds, 1858–1928
Chelsea Public Library
Drummond, Malcolm, 1880–1945
Christmas Eve, Highcross Market, Leicester, Sixteenth Century
Circus at Bath
Lessore, Thérèse, 1884–1945
Dancing Sailors, Brittany, France
Wood, Christopher, 1901–1930
Daniel Lambert (1770–1809)
Marshall, Benjamin, 1768–1835
Die Enkelin des Künstlers mit ihrem Kindermädchen
Liebermann, Max, 1847–1935
Escape from the Circus
Richards, Albert, 1919–1945
High Cross Street and 'The Nag's Head', Leicester
Fulleylove, John, 1845–1908
Kept In
Nicol, Erskine, 1825–1904
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