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A Battle with Some Wineskins
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías
Sir Terry Frost (1915 - 2003)
Whispering Tree
Sarah Tombs (1961 - )
The Knight’s Penance in the Sierra Morena
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Author & Satirist
Francis, (studio) Bindon (1690 - 1765)
Sophia Western, from Fielding’s “Tom Jones”
John Hoppner (1758 - 1810)
John Raphael Smith (1752 - 1812)
The Tower
R B Kitaj (1932 - 2007)
Don Quixote confined and enchanted
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
The Pursuit of the House-Boat
R B Kitaj (1932 - 2007)
Canto IX “Furies”
Syed Saleem Arif Quadri (1949 - )
Maria from Sterne’s ‘Tristram Shandy’
Thomas Uwins (1782 - 1857)
An Adventure with Some Windmills
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
The Liberation of the Galley Slaves
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
Pequod
Roger Hilton (1911 - 1975)
Dante’s “Inferno”: 3 Study Portraits of Dante
Syed Saleem Arif Quadri (1949 - )
The Don, the Virgins and the Penitents
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
Some Adventures of Don Quixote de La Mancha
Colin Lanceley (1938 - 2015)
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) Novelist and Poet
Sir Francis (studio) Chantrey (1781 - 1841)
Gulliver Addressing the Houyhnhnms
Sawrey Gilpin (1733 - 1807)
On Moddard’s Screen
Andy Harper (1971 - )
Dante’s Inferno
Syed Saleem Arif Quadri (1949 - )
About
What is the Government Art Collection?
A working collection
History of the Collection
Staff
Advisory Committee
Explore the Collection
Where can I see the Collection?
Curious facts
Stories that inspire
Representation of the People Project 2018-28
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The Robson Orr TenTen Award
The Platinum Jubilee
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