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photo credit: Manchester Art Gallery

Painting description Continental European after 1800, North West England: Artists and Subjects, Portraits: British 19th C, British 19th C, except portraits 9

Forward Why was this painting's title changed from 'A Fair Student' to 'Girl Reading'?

photo credit: Kirklees Museums and Galleries

Artist Continental European before 1800, Continental European after 1800 10

Could this be a work by Nicolaas Verkolje?

photo credit: The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum

Subject or sitter British 19th C, except portraits, Continental European after 1800, Scotland: Artists and Subjects 5

Forward Is this a view of the Guglia di San Gennaro?

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Discoveries

16 January 2018 — News

Revealed: The mysterious portrait of a newspaperman

Thomas William Evans (1853–1939), General Manager, Manchester Evening News (1901–1929), 1929, oil on canvas by Edward Hartley Mooney (1877–1938)
photo credit: Guardian News & Media Archive

17 October 2017 — News

Art Detectives uncover information about Taunton-born travelling artist

A Taunton Onion Seller, 1909, oil on canvas by Mabel Grace Trood (1872–1951)
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photo credit: Somerset Museums Service

17 October 2017 — News

John Scott of Carlisle attributed as artist of portrait of Thomas Bell

Thomas Bell, Governor of the York Merchant Adventurers (1854–1856), 1874, oil on canvas, attributed to John Scott (1850–1919)
photo credit: Merchant Adventurers' Hall

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