Month: January 2019

‘The Heart of the West Riding’

‘The Heart of the West Riding’ was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1916 by Bertram Priestman and is now in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries, Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford. It is a large oil painting on canvas, 115.5cm x 183.5cm, and depicts sunset  across the Vale of Huddersfield. It…

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When Augustus Met Sylvia

  Perhaps he was just having a bad day. But the first meeting in 1906 between Silsden-born Augustus Spencer, Principal of the Royal College of Art (RCA), and art student and Suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst, eventually led to a difficult, if not traumatic, period of tenure for him at the College. In 1900 Augustus…

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