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Supporting museums Art we've helped buy A Moorland Road

A Moorland Road

Sir Charles John Holmes

Art Funded
1937
Dimensions
47 x 77 cm
Art Fund grant
£105 (Total: £105)
Vendor
Colnaghi
This particular landscape, by a former Director of the National Gallery, has gained a fitting home in the Bowes Museum collection, symbolising as it does the Moorland country to be found at the doors of the Museum, as well as the home of the artist at Appleby, Westmorland.

It's decorative pattern formed by the stone walls and undulating road, together with its sense of solitude, as at the top of the world, must strike a responsive chord in every lover of the Pennine country.

Oil on canvas

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Art we’ve helped buy at The Bowes Museum

Three evening dresses
 Acquired 2009
The Enid Goldblatt collection of porcelain
 Acquired 1989
The Bucintoro Returning to the Molo & A Regatta on the Grand Canal
 Acquired 1983
The Blind Beggar and His Daughter
 Acquired 1963
The Autumn Bride (Portrait of Marguerite Moreno)
 Acquired 2008
The Adoration of the Magi, with St John the Baptist, St Anne and Donors
 Acquired 1980
Table Clock
 Acquired 1959
Table
 Acquired 1977
Suite of gilt seat furniture
 Acquired 2005
Suite of Early George II Furniture
 Acquired 1962
Still-life marquetry panel incorporated into 'The Warwick Cabinet'
 Acquired 1979
Serving dish
 Acquired 2011
Satyr with Two Fauns
 Acquired 1960
Saint Luke
 Acquired 2005
Sèvres ewer and basin
 Acquired 2012
River Scene with Farmhouse
 Acquired 1955
Regence ormolu-mounted Chinese porcelain casket
 Acquired 2013
Portrait bust of Madame Du Barry
 Acquired 1992
Plaque: Portrait of a Woman
 Acquired 2005
Pair of Vincennes bulb pots
 Acquired 1977
Pair of pedestals
 Acquired 1977
Pair of Console tables
 Acquired 1965
Pair of candelabra
 Acquired 1960
Pair of Adélaïde vases
 Acquired 2002
Mr John Bowes's 'Daniel O'Rourke' with Frank Butler up
 Acquired 2011
Mirror
 Acquired 1992
Louis XV silver ewer & dish
 Acquired 1968
Louis XV Bureau
 Acquired 1955
Lady Ludlow Collection of English Porcelain
 Acquired 2004
Lady Danesford Collection of embroidery pictures & samplers
 Acquired 1963
La Mal'aria
 Acquired 2012
James I spice box
 Acquired 1977
i) The ‘Lover’ of a Venetian Lady; ii) The Encounter of a Procurator with his Wife at ‘Ridotto’
 Acquired 2013
Gibside, Seat of the Earl of Strathmore, from the North
 Acquired 1985
Fountain mask
 Acquired 1966
Curio Cabinet
 Acquired 1961
Cupola of San Antonio de la Florida, Madrid
 Acquired 1972
Communion cup & inkstand
 Acquired 1963
Collection of porcelain and earthenware
 Acquired 1963
Collection of Etchings
 Acquired 1939
Collection of Dresden and Meissen porcelain
 Acquired 1955
Collection of 10 items of furniture
 Acquired 1963
Charles I Silver Wine Cup
 Acquired 1948
Chandelier
 Acquired 1959
Break-front bookcase
 Acquired 1978
Bracket clock
 Acquired 1995
Bowes Tower, Yorkshire
 Acquired 2007
Barnard Castle and Bridge
 Acquired 1947
Archive of moulds, drawings & tools for sugar sculpture
 Acquired 2002
Adam
 Acquired 2010
Account of the Montenegro Family, Seville
 Acquired 1963
A View of Barnard Castle, Yorkshire, from the River
 Acquired 2008
A Necessaire de Voyage
 Acquired 1981
A Musical Table Clock
 Acquired 1980
A Moorland Road
 Acquired 1937
18th Century enamel pieces
 Acquired 2007

The Bowes' collection includes three evening dresses by Madeleine Vionnet, 20th-century couturier and 'architect among dressmakers'. Funded in 2009, these gowns offer a window onto the style of their age, and speak of an inter-war world clinging to the comforts of the past.

Considered the finest work of French cabinet-maker Andre-Charles Boulle, a maquetry panel now forms the front of the 'Warwick Cabinet', incorporated in the late 18th century by an English firm. Known to have stood in Warwick Castle, the cabinet was rescued from export to America.

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Exhibitions at The Bowes Museum

Charlotte Hodes, After the Taking of Tea, 2018, hand cut transfer on china

Charlotte Hodes: Women and Pattern

Opening Soon
Bluett & Sons, Ming Bowl

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Image credit

1 . A Moorland Road

© The artist's estate

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