The Beecroft Art Gallery opened in 1953 containing a small collection of paintings belonging to the founder of the Gallery, Walter G Beecroft, a solicitor from Leigh on Sea, Essex. The collection grew through donations from the Friends of the Beecroft Art Gallery, the Thorpe Smith bequest of local paintings and funds from Southend Council, and now numbers over 2,000 works including Dutch and Flemish Old Masters, Victorian and modern paintings. Highlights include Constable's sketch of the Stour estuary of 1804, Henry Bright's image of Hadleigh Castle, a Frank Brangwyn painting of the Thames, and a collection of works by Edward Seago.
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Hillier, Tristram Paul, 1905–1983
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Portrait of a Girl, possibly Melissa c.1989
Dring, William D., 1904–1990
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Sorrell, Alan, 1904–1974
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O'Connor, John Scorror, 1913–2004
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Mountain Stream, Pyrenees 1960s
Coker, Peter, 1926–2004
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Osborne, John, b.1939
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Melting Snow at Wormingford 1962
Nash, John Northcote, 1893–1977
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Venues
Southend Museums Service artworks can be found at these venues
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Beecroft Art Gallery
Southend-on-Sea
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Central Museum
Southend-on-Sea
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Prittlewell Priory
Southend-on-Sea
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Southchurch Hall
Southend-on-Sea