The Royal West of England Academy is Bristol's oldest art gallery, located in Clifton, Bristol, near the junction of Queens Road and Whiteladies Road. Situated in a Grade II* listed building, it hosts
Front view, April 2006
Sharples Gallery
Marble Gallery friezes
Walter Crane lunettes
Bristol School
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The Bristol School was the informal association and works of a group of artists working in Bristol, England, in the early 19th century. It was mainly active in the 1820s, although the origins and infl
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…building was ultimately financed by a bequest of £2,000 from her will in 1849. At first, the core of the academy was a group of artists, known as the Bristol Society of Artists, who were mostly landscape painters, including William James Müller, Francis Danby, James Baker Pyne, John Syer, Edward Villiers Rippingille, and John…
Francis Danby, The Avon Gorge, Looking toward Clifton, watercolour, c. 1820.
Francis Danby, View of the Avon Gorge, oil on panel, 1822.