Galleries Collection

Scotland Forever. Photolithograph, coloured, by Lady Elizabeth Southerden Butler (as Mrs William Butler), 1881, published by Leeds City Art Galleries, 1980 (c)

The Courtauld Institute of Art, Home House, Portman Square, London, the magnificent Georgian house Samuel Courtauld acquired in 1926 to exhibit his collection Date: 18th century

Wandsworth Prison, south west London
A galleried wing of Wandsworth Prison in south west London. Two warders inspect the cells

Crystal Palace Plan
A floor plan of the Exhibition building - the ground floor and the galleries, showing how the courts open out from the central transept

The Picture of the Year by Batchelor
A pretty young woman becomes the centre of attention at a male-dominated art gallery exhibition

Extension of the British Museum, London
Extension of the British Museum in London: the new King Edward VII Galleries. A birds eye view showing the new section of the building. Date: 1914

Cell Block Interior, Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire
The interior of a cell block at Wakefield Prison, West Yorkshire. Cells line the open galleries which have a safety net strung across to prevent inmates falling

Portsmouth Prison Gallery
One of the galleries at Portsmouth Prison, Hampshire, cell doors lining each side. Date: circa 1900

Oliver Brown
OLIVER BROWN London Art Dealer, proprietor of the Leicester Galleries. Date: 1885 - 1966

Princess Elizabeth and Margaret at the British Museum
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret pictured visiting the British Museum with their grandmother, Queen Mary and viewing with interest the Rosetta Stone in the presence of the Museums Director

The Galleries, Gibraltar Date: circa 1910

Mrs Charles Sweeny contemplating her portrait
Mrs Charles Sweeny (1912 - 1993), formerly Miss Margaret Whigham and later the Duchess of Argyll, pictured looking at her own portrait in an exhibition of work by the portraitist Molly Bishop at

National Gallery 1906
The exterior of the National Gallery fronting onto Trafalgar Square, before the new works of 2003

Coal Mine Machinery
Improved Machinery for working Coal Mines - devices for conveying the coal along the galleries and up the shafts

Louvre Paintings 1929
Van Dijks Charles I dominates this group of 17th century paintings hung rather unimaginatively in a gallery of the Louvre

Kansas City Museum. Date: 1945

Advert for White City Greyhound Racing 1932
They ll all be at the Greyhound Derby ! Advert for White City greyhound racing stadium, showing the buffet and dinning galleries, view of the tracks from the club enclosure

Advert for the Grafton Galleries Dance Club, London, 1919
Advert for the Grafton Galleries Dance Club, 160 New Bond Street, London, 1919. Features the special attraction of the exhibition dancers Marjorie Moss and Georges Fontana Date: 1919

Elizabeth Jenns in front of Gluck painting by Madame Yevonde
Miss Elizabeth Jenns poses in a green velvet Lanvingown from Albert and Johnson in front of Glucks decorative painting of lilies, on view at the Fine Arts Galleries in 1932. Date: 1932

Manet and Post-Impressionists Exhibition, Grafton Galleries
By Men who think the Impressionists too Naturalistic: The Manet and the Post-Impressionists Exhibition at the Grafton Galleries, London. (from top left) 1

Glasgow, Scotland - The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum Date: 1937

Princes Street and National Galleries, Edinburgh, Scotland
Princes Street and National Galleries, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland - Painted by William Carruthers Affleck for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Victor Perosino, maitre d'Hotel, The Grafton Galleries Club
A portrait of Victor Perosino, maitre d'Hotel at the Grafton Galleries Club, December 1922 Date: 1923

The Horse Fair
A painting of a busy horse fair, which also provides a view of a Dutch village near Haarlem, Netherlands. Used here as a promotional piece for Stoner & Evans Fine Art Galleries. Date: circa 1600s

Lambeth Delft Plate
An image of a William and Mary Lambeth Delft Plate, in the possession of the Stoner & Evans Fine Art Galleries. Date: circa 1917

Stoner and Evans Advertisement
An advertisement for Stoner & Evans Fine Art Galleries, displaying some examples of Whieldon Agateware, using clay of various colours to create a marbled effect. Date: circa 1915

Illustration, Speeding on penny-farthings
Colour illustration, Speeding'. showing man and woman on penny-farthings. From a page captioned, A pleasure of The Era of Peace: Speeding'. From the coloured lithographs Velocipedes by Ch

Illustration, A Day at the Races
Colour illustration, A Day at the Races showing men and women with carriage and picnic hamper. From the coloured lithographs Les Cocottes Aux Bains De Mer

Illustration, Glamour Girls by the Seaside
Colour illustration, Glamour Girls by the Seaside, showing women sea bathing. From a page captioned, Pleasures of The Era of Peace'

Illustration, Great-Grandpapa's Night Club
Colour illustration, Great-Grandpapa's Night Club'. showing men and women dancing. From a page captioned, Pleasures of The Era of Peace: Penny-farthing and Polka'

Illustration, Wedding Party on Wheels
Colour illustration, The Wedding Party on Wheels, showing men, women, and children of a wedding party on bicycles in a park

New Museum and Art Galleries, Birmingham, 1885
Various views of the newly constructed museums and art galleries in Birmingham, England, 28th November 1885. Shown is the entrance, the lobby, the grand staircase, another interior view

Dunster Galleries, Adelaide
An advertisement photograph of the principal salon of the Dunster Galleries in Adelaide, available for exhibitions of pictures and generat art. Date: circa 1925

St. Marks, Venice
This oil painting shows Saint Mark's Basilica of Venice, Italy, comprising of Byzantine and Italian Gothic architecture, built originally c829. Date: circa 1907

Shoreham, England
An oil painting of the coastal town of Shoreham, in West Sussex, England, with a cluster of houses, looked upon by the tallest building, a church. Date: circa 1910

Dort Caravan
A photograph of a Dort caravan, The caravan of art, which was used by Gayfield Shaw to represent the country's best artists across the more rural areas of Australia

Busy Town Centre
Oil painting of a busy town centre, filled with lots of people in brown and white robes. Date: circa 1930

Sculpture of an unknown woman standing on a cushion plinth. Date: circa 1929

Portrait of an unknown woman
Oil portrait of a seated woman, whose identity is unknown. The artist, Ethel Walker would be having an Exhibition at the Leicester Galleries at this time. Date: circa 1929

Director of the Tate Gallery, inspecting damage
John Rothenstein (1901-1992), the Director of London's Tate Gallery, inspecting bomb damage. Th museum suffered this fate several times during the war

Tate Gallery bomb damage
The Tate Gallery initially sustained damage on 16 September 1940, when it was hit by a bomb, the first of several such incidents. Date: 1940

Advert for Treadwin Dobbs, The Pottery Galleries, Bath - china, glass and pottery. Date: 1902

Cartoon, Welcome! Britannia: Come in, ladies and gentlemen! Glad to give you a decent roof over your heads at last!'. A comment on the opening of the National Portrait Gallery on Saturday 4 April

The best attended private view: society and Sir John and Lady Laverys pictures. The show of pictures by Sir John and Lady Lavery at the Alpine Galleries was the smartest private view imaginable

Sir John and Lady Lavery at the exhibition of their pictures at the Alpine Club Galleries in 1921. Sir John is busy varnishing one of his canvases. Date: 1921

The New North Wing (King Edward VIIs Galleries) of the British Museum, Bloomsbury, London. Date: 1914

Visitors to the Guildhall Art Gallery
Visitors to the Loan Collection at the art gallery at the Guildhall. Date: 1894

Strength in Bronze, sculptures by Dora Gordine
Page from The Graphic reporting on the bronze sculptures by a young Russian girl, Dora Gordine, at the Leicester Galleries in 1928. Date: 1928

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