The oil painting, ‘Study of Mrs. M. Fisher Prout‘ by Louise Pickard, is in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums & Galleries and in 2026 was on display at the Cliffe Castle Museum and Gallery, Keighley. The mood struck is one of light and colour, but with the paint…
The portrait, ‘Old Lady’, by Edward Gregory was painted around 1911 and is in the permanent collection of Bradford Museums and Galleries and was on display at Cliffe Castle, Keighley, in 2026. It is a portrait of an unknown woman who appears, from her clothing, to be from an…
‘Gladioli’, painted in 1930 by Adrian Paul Allinson (1890-1959) is in the permanent collection of the Bradford Museums and Galleries Service and was on display at Cliffe Castle during 2026. It measures H 81.5 x W 65 cm and is painted in oils on canvas. Gladioli have always…
‘Hay Harvesting in Upper Wharfedale’, undated, is an oil on canvas painting by the local artist, Herbert Royle (1870-1958) and is one of a number of paintings with a similar theme that he painted in the Wharfe Valley close to his home at Nesfield, near Ilkley. This painting, measuring…
‘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…
