Sheepshanks Gift
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The Sheepshanks Gift was a major donation of artworks by the British art collector John Sheepshanks in 1857. It formed the basis of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington
Interior with John Sheepshanks by William Mulready. It formed part of the gift in 1857
Boat-Building Near Flatford Mill by John Constable, 1815
The Dog and the Shadow by Edwin Landseer, 1821
Devotion by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, 1821
Vernon Gift
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The Vernon Gift was a major donation of artworks by the British art collector Robert Vernon, presented to the nation in 1847. It initiated a wave of public donations during the Victorian era
Sheepshanks Gift
…The donation included 336 paintings, drawing and sketches. It was housed in a suite of three rooms specially constructed to showcase the collection. Vernon Gift, an 1847 donation of British art to the National Gallery Turner Bequest, an 1851 donation enacted in 1856…
The Canal of the Guidecca, and the Church of the Gesuati, Venice by Clarkson Stanfield, 1836. Vernon collected works by popular British contemporary artists such as Stanfield.
The First Interview Between the Spaniards and the Peruvians by Henry Perronet Briggs
Juliet and Her Nurse by Henry Perronet Briggs
Entrance to Pisa from Leghorn by Augustus Wall Callcott