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J. M. T. Turner (1775-1851), Caerlaverock Castle, c.1832, Watercolour on paper, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections
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William Dyce RA HRSA (1806-64), Titian Preparing to make his First Essay in Colouring, 1856-57, Oil on canvas, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), Berberis, Walberswick, 1915, Pencil and watercolour on paper, Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums Collections
Exhibition
Northern Lights: Aberndee Art Gallery at the Fleming Collection
8 Sep 2015 – 27 Jan 2016
Event times
Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-5.30pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 13 Berkeley Street
- London
- W1J 8DU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- By bus: 8, 9, 14, 19, 22, 38
- Nearest tube: Green Park
- 15 minute walk from Victoria
Northern Lights shows master works from the collection of Aberdeen Art Gallery, which is currently closed for a major redevelopment along with the adjoining Cowdray Hall. This exhibition has been selected especially for the Fleming Collection and concentrates on works with a Scottish connection.
About
Aberdeen Art Gallery’s outstanding collection demonstrates the city’s rich cultural heritage. The exhibition includes works by renowned Scottish portrait painters and artists. These include a 17th-century self-portrait by Aberdeen-born George Jamesone, regarded as Scotland’s first great portrait painter, and a portrait by Allan Ramsay, the premier Scottish portrait painter of the mid-18th century. There are works by the Aberdonian artists, John Philip and William Dyce and contemporary artist Calum Innes, who trained at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen.
Other highlights include Turner’s watercolour Caerlaverock Castle in Dumfriesshire, David Wilkie’s portrait of Wellington, a flower study by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and William Dyce’s Titian Preparing to make his First Essay in Colouring (1856–57). The latter was singled out for praise by Ruskin. Turner painted thirteenth-century Caerlaverock Castle in 1832, during one of his six visits to Scotland.
During the closure art works from the Aberdeen Art Gallery, will form separate exhibitions at the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, Drents Museum, Netherlands and ARoS, Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark.
