Midlands museums set to benefit from arts grant
Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust and Leicestershire County Council join up to support 265 museums.
Source: yahoo.com
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IN 1850, a local Reverend George Downing Bowles donated 26 portraits to Worcester’s museum collection. This group of paintings were the museum’s first coherent group of artworks – like many museums at the time, the popular subject for curators was Natural History rather than fine art – this marked the very beginnings of the City museum’s interest in art and art history. Nowadays, they are arguably the most significant part of Worcester’s fine art collection and are certainly some of the oldest artworks in its care. Lost for decades during the war years, the portraits are a rea...
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