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The Victoria Art Gallery is a free public facility located in the bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough centre of the beautiful city of Bath. Open all year round, it is visited by 76,000 people annually. The Gallery houses Bath & North East Somerset's collection of bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough paintings, sculpture and decorative arts. The building was designed in 1897 by a Scottish architect, John McKean Brydon. To celebrate Queen Victoria's bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough sixty years on the throne, it was decided to name the Gallery after her. The Gallery opened to the public in May 1900. A year later, a monumental bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough statue of the Queen was placed in a niche above the Bridge Street entrance, paid for from funds raised by the women of Bath. The oil paintings in bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough the Gallery's collection date from the fifteenth through to the twentieth century. Among them are works by painters who were active in the Bath area, including Thomas Gainsborough, Walter Sickert and J M W Turner. The decorative art collection ranges from delicate eighteenth century wine glasses to a wonderful bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough array of over 150 china dogs.
Caricature is a type of bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough mock portraiture. Facial features and physical bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough characteristics are exaggerated and distorted in order to make an amusing picture which encapsulates the subject’s personality, faults and foibles. Some bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough of the greatest caricaturists of the Georgian period came to Bath to create paintings and prints based on their observations of society at play in the Pump Room, Assembly Rooms, and out and about in the city’s streets. The Victoria Art Gallery’s collection has works by over 2000 artists. Bath bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough has attracted many artists since its spa became popular in the 18th century. We have few images of the city from before the 18th century, but once it bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough became a thriving spa town, artists flocked here to record its sights and characters. Landscape painters, local artists and caricaturists were all drawn to the bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough area, and painted the city. They left us with an important record of its development. Our pictures of the city do not just record the places bohemian glass, thomas gainsborough people lived in, but they also give us a fascinating insight into how those people lived and the things they did here.