‘Self-Portrait with Lightcliffe Old Church, Halifax’ is an oil painting by the Yorkshire artist, Peter Brooke. It is in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries Service and can often be seen at Cliffe Castle, Keighley. Although the painting was acquired by Bradford in 1981, it is…
‘Alice’ is a head and shoulders pencil sketch drawn in 1925 by the Irish born artist, Charlotte Lawrenson. It is in the permanent collection of the Bradford Museum and Galleries Service and was on display at Cartwright Hall, Bradford in 2025. It illustrates a girl in her pre-teen or…
‘Beckfoot’, painted around 1890, by local artist, Fred Stead, is in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries Service and was displayed at Cliffe Castle in 2025. It is an oil on canvas painting measuring 49 x 59.5 cm. The artist has chosen to use oils for this painting,…
Paul Town is a Bradford-born artist who specialises in painting sport and sport stadium scenes. He has built a successful business with sales of his paintings and prints, and for commissioned work. These have included commissions from football, rugby and other sporting clubs, as well as from sports related…
Annie Fforde is an artist, printmaker and freelance tutor with strong study, work and exhibition links with the Bradford district. She is a Leeds graduate in fine art and has also studied printmaking at Bradford School of Art. Annie lived in France for seventeen years until 2018, where she…
‘The Garden‘ is an oil on canvas painting, 77 .5 x 63.3 cm in size, by Ethel Walker (1861 – 1951) in the permanent collection of the Bradford Museums and Galleries Service and currently (2025) on display at Cartwright Hall, Lister Park, Bradford. It was painted at the end of…
Charles Desmond Manning (1925 – 1977) was a local teacher and freelance artist, who exhibited and sold his work within the Yorkshire region. He was born in Sheffield in 1925 and saw active war service as an air gunner in the RAF in 180 squadron, 2 TAF stationed in Belgium…
