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photo credit: Glasgow Museums

Subject or sitter Dress and Textiles, Portraits: British 20th C, Scotland: Artists and Subjects 20

Further information sought on 'Lady in a Green Dress' by George Henry

photo credit: Manchester Art Gallery

Subject or sitter British 19th C, except portraits, North West England: Artists and Subjects, Transport and Industry 58

Can anyone identify this Unidentified Mill Scene?

photo credit: Windsor & Royal Borough Museum

Subject or sitter Dress and Textiles, Portraits: British 20th C 64

Forward Who is this lady in a blue dress? When was this portrait painted?

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24 May 2017 — News

Art Detectives identify what appears to be one of Walter Sickert’s ‘echoes’

Margate in the Time of Turner, 1930, oil on canvas by Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)
photo credit: Kirklees Museums and Galleries

29 March 2017 — News

Hornby Castle identified in a painting by James Peel

Hornby Castle, Lancashire, oil on canvas by James Peel (1811–1906)
photo credit: Warrington Museum & Art Gallery

22 February 2017 — News

Further information found about this painting of a volcanic island

The 'Oliver Blanchard' of Jersey off a Volcanic Island at Night, 1862, oil on canvas by Philip John Ouless (1817–1885)
photo credit: Jersey Heritage

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