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An Alternative National Gallery: Blake’s 1809 Exhibition and the Attack on Evangelical Culture
This essay suggests that Blake’s 1809 exhibition was haunted by the memory of the Irish painter James Barry (1741–1806) and …
William Hazlitt’s Account of ‘Mr Angerstein’s Collection of Pictures’
Hazlitt’s account of the Angerstein Collection was published anonymously in 1822, two years before Lord Liverpool purchased thirty-eight pictures from …
A Persistent Passion for the Print
In Focus study by AnnMarie Perl on Meryon 1960–1 by Franz Kline, a Tate Research publication
History of Tate Britain
Discover how this gallery became home to the greatest collection of British art in the world
All the World’s a Stage
Since emerging as a key figure of the British Black arts movement in the 1980s, artist and cultural activist Lubaina …
Cultivated minds: The art of the garden
Martin Postle talks to Christoph Becker about artists and the inspiration of their gardens
Religion and Politics
Tate Research In Focus project on John Constable's Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831
The Story of Ophelia
Explore Millais's iconic painting, Ophelia, looking at the subject, materials, techniques and conservation
A Dramatic Reading of Augustus Leopold Egg’s Untitled Triptych
This article explores the significance of the theatrical and literary references found in the triptych Past and Present 1858 by …
Dance, Theatre and Performance
Tate Research In Focus project on The Deluge 1920 by Winifred Knights
Lines of Sight: Alfred Watkins, Photography and Topography in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Alfred Watkins (1855–1935) originated the idea of ley-lines and surveyed alignments which articulated the prehistoric landscape of Britain, in his …
To the Ends of the Earth: Art and Environment: Art & Environment
Introducing the group of articles devoted to the theme of ‘Art & Environment’ in Tate Papers no.17, this essay reflects …
'Poor abraded butterflies of the stage': Sickert and the Brighton Pierrots
Sickert's interest in popular entertainment extended beyond the London music-hall and his 1915 painting Brighton Pierrots depicts a troupe of …
Colour me British: Watercolour I
Tate Britain is staging a grand survey of watercolour painting in Great Britain, from the early thirteenth century through to …
‘Fire and Water’: Turner and Constable in the Royal Academy, 1831
Pictures by John Constable and J.M.W. Turner hung side by side in the Royal Academy in 1831, an arrangement orchestrated …
Whatever Happened to the Frontier? Performing Provincialism in Post-War Los Angeles
During the 1950s and 1960s, critics writing about art on America’s West Coast often treated it as provincial. At the …
Forgotten Faces
Forgotten Faces comprises seventeen portraits or figure paintings and three sculptures ranging between 1896 – a year before the foundation …
John Constable and Paul Huet: Marsh and Flood
This paper revisits a familiar episode in accounts of John Constable’s career – his reception and legacy in France. Paul …