‘Landscapes of War’ is a dry-point print by the local artist, Sir William Rothenstein, and is in the Bradford Print Collection, which is a part of the Bradford Museum and Galleries Service. It is numbered five of twelve dry point prints made by Rothenstein during his time as an Official…
Valley Pasture, Marsh Meadows is an oil on canvas painting, measuring H 131 x W 184 cm, by Bertram Priestman, dated 1902, and is in the permanent collection of the Bradford Museums and Galleries Service. It is scene of summer in all its lazy verdant splendour. It depicts a…
‘Claire’ is an oil on canvas portrait painted by Charles Henry Kerr (1858 – 1907) in the Bradford Museums & Galleries collection. Charles Kerr was a British genre, landscape and portrait painter, best known for his book illustrations for the adventure novels of H. Rider Haggard. ‘Claire’ was gifted to…
‘His Majesty’s Mail, Kilnsey Crag, 1920’, an oil on canvas painting by the local artist, Bertram Priestman, depicts a Royal Mail coach making its way toward Burnsall. The heights of Kilnsey Crag, near Grassington, are shown in the middle background, and Simons Seat above the Wharfe Valley is shown…
‘Far Westfield, Haworth Moor’ is a painting by the locally-born artist, Joseph (Joe) Pighills and is in the Bradford Museum and Galleries Service. Joe was to paint this same scene on a number of occasions, including in watercolour, but this version is painted in oils on board and measures 59.5 x…
‘An Interrupted Picnic’ is a painting by Charles Sims, dated 1901, in the Bradford Museums and Galleries collection and in 2025 was on display at Cliffe Castle, Keighley. It depicts a group of adults and children in the foreground making preparations to leave a picnic site as a storm sweeps…
‘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,…
‘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…
