Bowes Museum
The Bowes Museum is an art museum in Barnard Castle in the east of Northern England .
The museum was donated by the English art collector John Bowes (1811–1885), who died before it opened in 1892. The French Jules Pellechet (1829-1903) was commissioned as the architect , who designed it in the style of a large-scale château with a park.
The museum has an important collection of European painters, including works by Anthonis van Dyck , El Greco , Francisco Goya , Giovanni Battista Pittoni , Canaletto , Jean-Honoré Fragonard , François Boucher , Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes , Allan Ramsay , Thomas Gainsborough and William Turner includes. In addition to the paintings, decorative art, textiles, ceramics, clockworks and automata as well as costumes are exhibited. One of the most famous exhibits in the museum is the silver swan made by the jeweler and entrepreneur James Cox , an automaton powered by several clockworks.
literature
- Charles E. Hardy: John Bowes and the Bowes Museum (1970, reprinted 1982) ISBN 0-9508165-0-7
- Caroline Chapman: John and Josephine: The Creation of The Bowes Museum (2010)
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Coordinates: 54 ° 32'30.3 " N , 1 ° 54'56.4" W.