Art collection on display.One of the finest private collections of early British watercolour watercolour Painting made with a pigment ground in gum, usually gum arabic, and applied with brush and water to a surface, usually paper. The pigment is ordinarily transparent but can be made opaque by mixing with a whiting to produce gouache. paintings is to go on public display. The works from the Spooner Collection will go on show at the Wordsworth Trust's Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere in the Lake District from July 14 until October 25. The collection was built up by Yorkshire industrialist William Wycliffe Spooner, who died in 1967 and whose family once owned How Foot Lodge ( near the trust's Dove Cottage ( and which is now run as a guesthouse guest·house n. 1. A small house or cottage adjacent to a main house, used for lodging guests. 2. A bed-and-breakfast. . His collecting continued for more than 50 years. More than 40 artists are represented in the collection including JR Cozens, JMW JMW Junior Maine Woodsman Turner, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Girtin, Peter De Wint and Samuel Palmer. Lake District works in the collection include John Abbott White's Lake District drawings of Thirlmere and Skiddaw and Borrowdale and Derwentwater. |
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