A tale of two portraits which caught the eye of John Bowes
28 Feb 2021 SINT AND SINNER: Above, St Jerome in the Wilderness, by Andrea Solario In the latest of her regular columns, Dorothy Blundell takes a sideways look at the collections of The Bowes Museum where she is a volunteer LONG before he met Joséphine, John Bowes was buying paintings. In 1830, aged 19, he made a brief Grand Tour of the continent and acquired his first painting, the Temptation of St Anthony. By 1844 he had bought 57 artworks, ranging from Italian pre-Renaissance to Dutch 17th century, as well as some 15th century art. One of his purchases of 1841, and displayed in the re...