The
Collection
Dulwich Picture Gallery houses one of
the world's most important collections of European old master
paintings of the 1600s and 1700s. The collection is also one of
the oldest in Great Britain. Ian Dejardin, Director and Xavier
Salomon, Curator talk you through some of the rich paintings and
a brief history of the gallery
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One
of the most successful art dealerships of Georgian London was
a partnership between Noel Desenfans and Francis Bourgeois the
founders of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Ian Dejardin introduces these
two men in DPG own theatrical Mausoleum bathed in orange light
and only a few feet away from the Gallery.
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Xavier
Salomon looks at Guido Reni's Saint Sebastian a deeply religious subject but also a sensually charged image. it was the focal point of Sir John Soane's Gallery at Dulwich for most of the nineteenth-century and is one of the collection's best-known works. |
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Xavier
Salomon compares John Constable's copy of van Ruisdael's 'Landscape
with Windmills near Haarlem' where both paintings sit side by
side in the Gallery |
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Venetia
Stanley went to bed one night and never woke up again leaving
many grieving people. Her husband, so distraught, asked Van Dyke
to capture her beauty while she lay dead in bed. Ian Dejardin
gives us an insight into why she died so mysteriously. |
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Noel
Desenfens was engaged in assembling a collection of old master
paintings for the King of Poland. Because of the King's enforced
abdication they were never delivered. James Northcote has painted
Desenfens with a slight smile and Ian Dejardin thinks he knows
why.
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This
painting of a young man is definitely a Florentine work around
1500 first attributed to Leonardo da Vince and later to Boltraffio
but now is generally accepted as Piero di Cosimo. Xavier Salomon
takes a closer look at the painting and sheds some light on the painting and the artist
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A mysterious little painting of Dutch origin but who is the artist? Ian Dejardin delves deep into the landscape and discovers a possible answer
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