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Four Watercolours

Alfred William Rich

Art Funded
1935
Bequeathed by
Mrs Philippa Holliday through The Art Fund
1) 'Landscape with hay-carts in foreground' 25 x 38 cms 2) 'Ludlow Castle' 27 x 39 cms; 3) 'Rickmansworth Canal' 25 x 35 cms ; 4) 'A Ruined Abbey' 24 x 33 cms.

Part of one gift and one bequest to 14 museums by Phillippa Holliday through the Art Fund between 1933 and 1935.

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Alfred Rich.

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Art we’ve helped buy at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery

View of a Bay
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Vale of Marlow
 Acquired 1968
Vale of Llanberis
 Acquired 1968
Untitled
 Acquired 2011
Two Volumes of Miniatures
 Acquired 1957
Two vases
 Acquired 2010
Trouville
 Acquired 1976
Town in the Alps
 Acquired 1968
The Tale
 Acquired 1968
The South Downs
 Acquired 1968
The Hills from the Hayfields Green, East Knoyle
 Acquired 1920
The Adoration of the Kings
 Acquired 1949
Still Life
 Acquired 1978
Statuette of a stag
 Acquired 1987
St Margaret of Cortona in Ecstasy
 Acquired 1975
Silverware
 Acquired 2002
Silver tea service
 Acquired 2002
Selling Carrots
 Acquired 1955
Road through a Forest
 Acquired 1955
Portrait of Harry Hine
 Acquired 2009
Pitcher
 Acquired 1998
Peasants Dancing
 Acquired 1958
Murmansk
 Acquired 1998
Mountain Tops
 Acquired 1968
Loving cup
 Acquired 2011
Loading Hay
 Acquired 1968
Leading Cattle & Cattle in a Wood
 Acquired 1930
Large earthenware dish
 Acquired 2002
Lane near Edgbaston
 Acquired 1968
Landscape with Megaliths
 Acquired 2009
Landscape with Mansion
 Acquired 1968
Landscape
 Acquired 2001
Lake Nemi
 Acquired 1968
Jeune Fille
 Acquired 1978
Head of a Fool
 Acquired 2001
Glass vase
 Acquired 2000
Ghent
 Acquired 1968
Four Watercolours
 Acquired 1935
Floating
 Acquired 2007
Five drawings for 'Punch' magazine
 Acquired 1934
Faience bowl
 Acquired 2002
Dover Castle
 Acquired 1968
Difficult Background
 Acquired 2001
Cupamuir in Fife, Scotland
 Acquired 1973
Criccieth Castle
 Acquired 1955
Criccieth Castle
 Acquired 1953
Costume for 'Jessica' in 'The Merchant of Venice'
 Acquired 1932
Collection of watercolours, paintings, a drawing and a print
 Acquired 2009
Collection of Silverware
 Acquired 1955
Collection of nine sheets of etchings
 Acquired 1928
Collection of Etchings
 Acquired 1939
Cliffs and Harbour
 Acquired 1953
Chair: Please keep off the Glass
 Acquired 2005
Cartoon for stained glass: St Elizabeth and St John the Baptist
 Acquired 2009
Black Rock, Brighton
 Acquired 1943
At Grips
 Acquired 1953
Architectural sculpture
 Acquired 1931
An Alpine Village
 Acquired 1953
Alpine Village and River
 Acquired 1968
A Wood with a Pond
 Acquired 1968
A Swiss Lake
 Acquired 1968
A Sussex Windmill & Penhurst Place
 Acquired 1965
A Ruined Abbey
 Acquired 1968
A Man Dancing
 Acquired 1978
7 Drawings
 Acquired 2001
'Iriabo' and 'Naked Big Fish'
 Acquired 2000

Among a host of Art Funded works at the museum, Walter Richard Sickert's oil painting Brighton Pierrots (1915), part of the Tate Collection, reflects well the local and international significance of the gallery. Sickert watched the eponymous theatre troupe on the Brighton seafront every evening for five weeks, making drawings in preparation for the final work.

The sense of loneliness which pervades the painting is characteristic of Sickert's late work. The effect is amplified by the presence of empty deckchairs, reminding us that the scene was captured during World War I.

Part of the Romano-British collection, the bronze Statuette of a stag dates from the first century AD. A rare piece, it was discovered just north of Brighton by an enthusiast with a metal detector. An Art Fund grant of £7,644 helped to save the sculpture from being exported.

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