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Event County: Greater London Birth of a Collection: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts and The National GalleryThe Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham, a research partner of the National Gallery, is celebrating its 80th anniversary with a year-long programme of activity in 2013. As part of these...National Gallery | London | 22 May — 1 September 2013
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Lothian Blazing with Crimson | Tartan PortraitsThis display explores what these distinctive garments and this highly recognisable textile meant to six different people who were painted between 1680 and 1780. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery would like to thank ...Scottish National Portrait Gallery | Edinburgh | 1 December 2012 — 31 December 2013
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Lothian Citizens of the World | David Hume & Allan RamsayScotland made a remarkable contribution to the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century with many of her citizens contributing to the ferment of ideas and shifts in attitude which transformed the world. Two...Scottish National Portrait Gallery | Edinburgh | 1 December 2011 — 31 December 2015
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: West Yorkshire Dana SchutzLiving and working in Brooklyn, New York, this will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in Britain and will feature a selection of around 20 canvases spanning her career to date. Schutz is renowned for her...The Hepworth Wakefield | 12 October 2013 — 30 January 2014
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Cumbria Display - The Great Picture TriptychThis complex, mysterious and enormous 17th century triptych was acquired by the Lakeland Arts Trust in 1981 with the aim of keeping it in the North West where Lady Anne Clifford, who commissioned this painting, ruled...Abbot Hall Art Gallery | Kendal | 16 June 2012 — 21 December 2013 -
Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Tyne and Wear Divine BodiesOld Master paintings are alive with vivacious, seductive and curious figures. Divine Bodies combines exceptional European pre-1800 paintings from the Hatton, Shipley and Laing Art Gallery collections with important...Laing Art Gallery (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums) | Newcastle | 8 June — 29 September 2013
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Lothian George Jamesone: Scotland's First Portrait PainterHe was the first great native-born artist in a profession dominated by foreigners. Born in Aberdeen, Jamesone served his apprenticeship in Edinburgh as a painter of decorative interiors before returning to his native...Scottish National Portrait Gallery | Edinburgh | 1 December 2011 — 31 December 2013
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Event: Workshop or activity session County: Greater Manchester Hidden facesBe inspired by the many faces in our fab Hidden exhibition and create your own powerful portrait with artist Sarah Marsh.People's History Museum | Manchester | 29 May 2013 -
Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Greater London Humphrey Ocean: A handbook of modern lifeWorking swiftly in gouache on large sheets of paper in his studio, Ocean paints his sitters, including family members, friends and professional acquaintances, in simple forms and bold colours. The project has an...National Portrait Gallery | London | 23 November 2012 — 21 July 2013
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Lothian Imagining Power: The Visual Culture of the Jacobite CauseThe Scottish National Portrait Gallery has the most extensive and significant collection of Jacobite visual material in the world. The term ‘Jacobite’ derives from ‘Jacobus’, the Latin form of James, and...Scottish National Portrait Gallery | Edinburgh | 1 December 2011 — 31 December 2015
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Lothian Imagining Power: The Visual Culture of the Jacobite CauseThe Scottish National Portrait Gallery has the most extensive and significant collection of Jacobite visual material in the world. The term ‘Jacobite’ derives from ‘Jacobus’, the Latin form of James, and...Scottish National Portrait Gallery | Edinburgh | 1 December 2011 — 31 December 2015
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Event County: Lothian Ken CurrieThe Glasgow-based artist is renowned in the context of the Portrait Gallery for his haunting, luminous painting Three Oncologists (2002) and his searing self-portrait Unfamiliar Reflection (2006). Widely admired for his ...Scottish National Portrait Gallery | Edinburgh | 20 July — 22 September 2013
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Cheshire Look CloserA new art exhibition at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery. When you visit an exhibition in an art gallery sometimes it can be difficult to know where to start. This exhibition aims to help you look closer at art by using...Warrington Museum & Art Gallery | 10 November 2012 — 12 October 2013 -
Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: North Yorkshire MasterstrokesFeaturing 15th century Italian paintings, sumptuous 18th century portraits by Hogarth and Allan Ramsay, Victorian masterpieces including Hogarth's Studio by EM Ward and LS Lowry's iconic view of York, this is a chance...York Art Gallery | 31 May 2013 — 1 January 2015
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Greater London Michael Landy: Saints AliveThe saints are more often associated with traditional sacred art than with contemporary work, but Michael Landy, 2013 Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist in residence at the National Gallery, has been inspired to...National Gallery | London | 23 May — 24 November 2013
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: West Yorkshire Milner-White's paintings at The Hepworth WakefieldThe exhibition includes paintings from the Milner-White collection at York Art Gallery by artists such as Stanley Spencer, Walter Sickert, Gwen John and John Piper.The Hepworth Wakefield | 1 September 2013 — 1 February 2014
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Lothian Out of the Shadow: Women of Ninteenth Century ScotlandThese women were mostly the exception to a general rule, unusual in their achievements at a time when most women enjoyed few rights and freedoms and had limited expectations beyond the domestic sphere. A consideration...Scottish National Portrait Gallery | Edinburgh | 1 December 2011 — 31 December 2013
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Event County: City of London Painted FacesThis celebration of the visage will showcase works from the seventeenth century to the present day which explore the relationship between painter and sitter, artist and muse. A chance to see rarely-displayed paintings,...Guildhall Art Gallery | London | 26 April — 9 December 2013
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Tyne and Wear Painted FacesPainted Faces is an exhibition inspired by the recent acquisition of a work by internationally known contemporary artist Marlene Dumas, which depicts the talented singer-songwriter, Amy Winehouse. Dumas’ ‘Back...Laing Art Gallery (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums) | Newcastle | 12 December 2012 — 2 June 2013
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Event: Exhibition (temporary) County: Lothian Pioneers of ScienceFrom portraits of John Logie Baird and Alexander Fleming to Dolly the sheep’s death mask, this unusual display charts scientific legacies and their enduring influence.Scottish National Portrait Gallery | Edinburgh | 1 December 2011 — 31 December 2013
