Room 88: Gainsborough's Showbox & Constable's Oil Sketches
This Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery features the oil sketches of John Constable as well as Thomas Gainsborough's unique 'showbox'. Thirty of Constable's oil sketches given …
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Room 48a: The Raphael Cartoons
This room houses the surviving designs painted by Raphael, one of the greatest of all Italian Renaissance artists, for tapestries commissioned in Rome in 1515 by Pope Leo X…
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Room 87: Constable, Turner & the Exhibition Landscape
In this Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery major landscape paintings by Constable are exhibited beside works by his competitor Turner and their contemporaries, including James …
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Room 102: Lord Leighton's Frescoes
Commissioned as part of the decoration of the new Museum in 1868 from the famous Victorian painter Lord Frederic Leighton, these frescoes depict the "Arts of Industry as ap…
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Room 107: Lord Leighton's Frescoes
Commissioned as part of the decoration of the new Museum in 1868 from the famous Victorian painter Lord Frederic Leighton, these paintings depict the "Arts of Industry as a…
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Room 90: Prints & Drawings
The Julie and Robert Breckman Gallery contains changing displays of prints and drawings. A recent display, ‘Off the Page’, showcased book illustration from famous and much …
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Room 90a: Portrait Miniatures
The International Music and Art Foundation Gallery displays Miniature painting, a unique art form, with artists such as Nicholas Hilliard, Samuel Cooper and John Smart spec…
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Room 81: The Ionides Collection
This Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery contains Constantine Ionides' collection which provides a unique insight into progressive taste in Victorian Britain. He assembled a fin…
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Room 82: The Sheepshanks Collection
This Edwin and Susan Davies Gallery contains paintings from John Sheepshanks collection. He founded the paintings collection of the V&A in 1857 with a gift of 233 paintings…
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Room 88a: Watercolours & drawings
The V&A has acquired thousands of watercolours, drawings and illustrations since its foundation. A selection, rotated regularly, is displayed in this gallery.
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A gift in your will
You may not have thought of including a gift to a museum in your will, but the V&A is a charity and legacies form an important source of funding for our work. It is not just the great collectors and the wealthy who leave legacies to the V&A. Legacies of all sizes, large and small, make a real difference to what we can do and your support can help ensure that future generations enjoy the V&A as much as you have.
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The Painted World: From Illumination to Abstraction (Paperback)
The Painted World takes the outstanding collections of the V&A as the starting point for an all-inclusive survey of painting from the Middle Ages …
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Thu 23 May 2013 11:00
The V&A’s collection of British and European oil paintings is less well known than its holdings of sculpture and the applied arts, however the Museum has acquired oil paintings since its foundation.
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