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Portrait of John Throsby

Thomas Walker

Art Funded
1950
Presented by
Archdeacon F H D Smythe through The Art Fund
Pencil drawing of John Throsby, author of 'A History of Leicester'.

One of 79 drawings presented by Archdeacon F H D Smythe through 5 separate gifts through the Art Fund between 1947 and 1950.

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New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

53 New Walk, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE1 7EA
0116 225 4900
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Art we’ve helped buy at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

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Der Raucher: Porträt Alfred Hess, Erfurt
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Works from the George Warre Collection
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Watercolour
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View in Drinkstone Park, Stowmarket
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Two Shire Horses Grazing
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The Swimming Pool
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The Carol Singers
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Studies of Infants at Play
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Streichholzhandler (Match Seller)
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St John Baptist Entering the Wilderness
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Setters & Pointers
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Semper Eadem: Familiar Interiors of Leicester
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Self Portrait
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Segelboot bei Fehmarn (Sailboat off Fehmarn)
 Acquired 2006
Sculpture (figure of a swift)
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River View with Distant Scene of Vianen
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Regents Park
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PrtInd Vase
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Portrait of William, 1st Baron of Ponsonby
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Portrait of John Throsby
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Portrait of J L Behrend
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Portrait of Anna Roslund
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Pair of silver candlesticks
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Near Orange
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Messias
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Masked Fool
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Looking Westward, Appleby
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Le Havre, L'Avant-Port
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Landscape
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Kleinwelt
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James I Steeple Cup and Cover
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Iguanagone
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Home Made Tasers
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Girl on a Beach & An Irish Professor
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Girl leaning on a Mantelpiece
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Frau im Cafe: Lotte Fischler
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Der Jahrmarkt. Der Ausrufer (Selbstbildnis)
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Debbie Loves Jesus
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Darwings from the Du Maurier Bequest
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Corfe Castle sculpture
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Collection of works
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Collection of Etchings
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Collection of English Furniture & Persian Carpets
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Collection of drawings and paintings
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Circus
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Bords du Loire
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Bedfordshire Lace Bobbins
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Bargaining for Sheep
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Autoportraits: 1) Fly Girl Series, 1993; 2) Fly Girl in Harlem, 1996-2003
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Atapuerca - Ritual Fire Dance
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Apollo Pythion
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Any London Street
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12 drawings
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1) Selbstbildnis (Self Portrait); 2) Kleines Selbstbildnis (Small Self Portrait)
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1) Bamberg
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Exhibitions at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery

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Brick City exhibition - Rome Colosseum

Brick City

  • New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester
  • Until 31 August 2020
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