Circle of Thomas Patch [1725-1782] British The Harbour, Naples. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1952 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society.
Claude Lorraine [1600-1682] French Landscape with Hagar and the Angel 1654. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Gifted 1982 by Mary, Dora and Esmond de Beer through the National Art Collections Fund, London.
Salvator Rosa [1615-1673] Italian Rocky Landscape with Figures 17th Century. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1974 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society.
Joshua Reynolds [1723-1792] British Maria, Countess Waldegrave 1764-1765. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1947 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society.
Allan Ramsay [1713-1784] Scottish Sir Edward Kynaston of Hardwick 1750. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1960 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society.
Unknown British Man’s silk waistcoat 1750s. Silk satin brocade. The design is woven with silk, silk chenille and silver metal threads. Shaped during weaving to include border design. Linen back, buttons embroidered with silver threads. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Gifted 1974 by Madam Stuart Stevenson
Adam Brothers [1758-1792] British Vase Knife Case c 1785. Mahogany inlaid with satinwood. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Gifted 1960 by Mrs G L Ferguson.
Giovanni Piazzeta [1683-1754] Italian Study of heads. Chalk on paper. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
Joseph Mallord William Turner [1775-1851] British Dunstanborough Castle, Northumberland c 1799. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1931 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society
Thomas Gainsborough and John Hoppner [1727-1788, 1758-1810] British Charlotte, Countess Talbot c 1784. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1958 with funds from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society through the Peter Smeaton Fund.
Bow China Works [c 1747 - 1776] British Figure of Earth Circa 1760. Polychrome soft paste porcelain. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1950 from the Collinson bequest.
Richard Westall [1765-1836] British Group of Female Figures. Watercolour on paper. Collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Gifted in the 1950s by Archdeacon F H D Smythe.
The Grand Tour
Highlights from the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Collection
1 December 2008 - 30 November 2009
A Grand Tour of the 17th and 18th century sort, was an adventure of aesthetic and intellectual discovery, undertaken by classically educated males of the northern European ruling classes, to complete their education, to acquire manners and languages and to attain an understanding of the politics of other countries, their economies, art, geography and history. The Tour usually encompassed a journey through France and Italy - Paris and Rome were essential to visit - and a tour might take as long as six to eight years if a lengthy period of study was included. British travellers in particular played a key role in the development of the notion of the Grand Tour, and this in turn had a major influence in Britain on art, collecting, patronage and taste.
The Grand Tour, not only activated an adventurous spirit, but encouraged a taste for Classical art and style, the collection of Antiquities and the acquisition and production of works of art, such as prints and paintings of townscape views by Canaletto and Claude Lorrain, and portraiture in the Grand Manner by artists such as Sir Joshua Reynolds.
This exhibition of works from the Gallery’s collection, has been inspired by the concept of the Grand Tour. It offers visitors the opportunity to roam through a selection of works drawn from the permanent collection typically associated with a historic Grand Tour, but has been extended in scope to include prints, paintings, sculptures, furniture, ceramics and objet d’art representing highlights from the European collection ranging in date from 14th to the 20th century.
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