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28 Jan - 05 Jun 2012

This exhibition tells the story of how the paintings collection at Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens was formed, and has developed over the past 150 years.



Highlighting influential figures including Thomas Dixon, a Sunderland born cork-cutter who persuaded Dante Gabriel Rossetti to donate two drawings for the opening of the art Gallery; John Dickinson, who gave the largest single bequest of paintings in 1908; through to L.S. Lowry, who was a frequent visitor to Sunderland in the 1960s and 1970s.

Prints of some of the artworks in this exhibition are available to buy from our online shop - click on each painting title to find out more:

Sunny Climes, Tahiti, by Nicholas Chevalier

Fruit  by William Duffield

Old Sunderland by Thomas Marie Madawaska Hemy

Esther Denouncing Haman to King Ahasuerus by Ernest Normand

Snow on Tunstall Hills, Sunderland by David Thomas Robertson

Egyptian Musician by Knighton C. Warren