Collections highlights - Art
Highlights from our art collection.
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Shepherds’ hut with Stonehenge on the horizon
By UnknownRead more19th century oil on board, depicting Stonehenge, with shepherds in foreground. Artist unknown. While being cleaned, it was discovered that the image of Stonehenge is a
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Portrait of Peggy Piggott (Peggy Guido) by Frank Griffith
Read morePortrait of Peggy Piggott by Frank Griffith (1889-1979), painted in c.1938. Peggy Guido was President of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, jointly with
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Thomas Lawrence – the ‘go to’ Georgian portrait painter from Devizes
Read moreThomas Lawrence was born in Bristol in 1769 and moved to Devizes in 1773, when his father became landlord of the Bear Hotel. Devizes was
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White Horse – dummy Puffin book by Eric Ravilious
Read moreIn 1939 Eric Ravilious was commissioned to create a Puffin book for children about the chalk downs and White Horses. He began a 'dummy' of
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The tale of Wiltshire Moonrakers
Read moreUS WUR CLEVERER THAN ‘E-AH, US DIDDLED ‘E ALRIGHT. In a pond up ‘Vizes way – smugglers ‘ad ‘idden a keg ‘o brandy & us
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Hungerford Papers
Read moreAmong the Library holdings are the Research papers of Canon J E Jackson (1805-1891) relating to the Hungerford family, their seat at Farleigh-Hungerford, and their
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Half Length Portrait of an Unknown Man by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Read moreThomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was a portrait painter born in Bristol, and the youngest of 16 children. In 1772 the family moved to Devizes where Lawrence’s
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Cartoon for the Stained Glass Window at the Wiltshire Museum by John Piper
Read moreJohn Piper (1903-1992) was born at Epsom, and studied at Richmond and Kingston Schools of Art, and the Royal College of Art. He was also
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Avebury Restored by John Martin, 1823-4
By John MartinRead moreJohn Martin (1789-1854) painter, engraver and illustrator was a key figure in nineteenth century art best known for dramatic work often of religious or fantastical
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Inside The Circle by Henry Moore signed 1971-73
By Henry MooreRead moreHenry Moore O.M. (1898-1986), was a sculptor born at Castleford, Yorkshire. This is the fourth plate in Henry Moore’s Stonehenge suite and the Museum has