Victoria Art Gallery

Victoria Art Gallery

Infobox Museum
name = Victoria Art Gallery


established = 1900
location = Bath, Somerset
map_type=Somerset
latitude= 51.3794
longitude= -2.3670
visitors = 92,000 per year [cite web |url=http://www.victoriagal.org.uk/index.cfm?UUID=11A6457D-2792-47E5-9D19FD019D92F28F |title=Welcome to the Victoria Art Gallery |accessdate=2007-10-28 |format= |work=Victoria Art Gallery ]
director =
website = [http://www.victoriagal.org.uk/ Museum web site]
The Victoria Art Gallery is free public facility in Bath, Somerset, England.

The building was designed in 1897 by John McKean Brydon. The exterior of the building includes a statue of Queen Victoria, by A. C. Lucchesi,and friezes of classical figures by G. A. Lawson. [cite web |url=http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/place/bath.htm |title=The Victoria Art Gallery, Bath |accessdate=2007-10-28 |format= |work=The website of Bob Speel ]

The Gallery was named to celebrate Queen Victoria's sixty years on the throne. It is run by Bath and North East Somerset council and houses their collection of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.

It includes over 1,500 decorative arts treasures including a display of British oil paintings from 17th century to the present day including works by Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Jones Barker and Walter Sickert. [cite web |url=http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/museum_gfx_en/SW000050.html |title=Victoria Art Gallery, Bath |accessdate=2007-10-28 |format= |work=24 Hour Museum ]

References

External links

* [http://www.victoriagal.org.uk/ Museum web site]

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