Explore the Scarborough Lifeboat in Paint At Scarborough Art Gallery Scarborough has a long history of maritime painting, particularly throughout the Victorian era. Arguably, it reached a peak after the appointment of Albert Strange as headmaster of the new...
Painting the landscape – the Art of Herbert F Royle Born near Manchester and with strong connections to the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, where he exhibited annually for fifty years from 1894, much of Royle’s art is rooted in the landscapes of...
Portrait of Leo Walmsley by Ethel Walker Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby This interesting portrait of the author Leo Walmsley gives us a glimpse into the lives of a group of artists living in Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Yorkshire coast during the 1920s and 30s....
Explore a selection of ‘Fisher Folk’ Having a portrait painted was often expensive, which is why most surviving portraits tend to be of the wealthier members of society. Sometimes portraiture was even used to demonstrate wealth and status, but it could...
Whitby Harbour by Elias BancroftPannett Art Gallery, Whitby ‘Whitby Harbour’ was painted by Elias Bancroft around the year 1900. It shows a scene down a street or slipway known as Tin Ghaut in Whitby. This scenic alleyway was a well-known location for painting...
