English Watercolours of the 18th - 19th Centuries from the Collection of Paul Mellon in the Yale Center for British Art (USA)
The Twelve-Column Hall: Room 244
23 October 2007 - 13 January 2008
"English Watercolours of the 18th - 19th Centuries" exhibition mounted by the Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, Connecticut) and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond) marks the 100th anniversary of Paul Mellon (1907-1999), an American collector and ardent lover of English art who generously sponsored the two institutions mentioned above.
The eighty-eight works by forty-five artists exhibited in the Hermitage span the period in the history of British art from the middle of the 18th century, when watercolour developed into an independent art form, to the 19th century, when it became a national form of British art.
The thoroughly selected works illustrate different aspects of watercolour, its formation and development, most popular subject matter and techniques.
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