Simon Bolivar, The Wallace of South America
The Stirling Smith collection contains many treasures, some of which have seen better days and are in need of major conservation work. Many are anonymous, like this ‘Portrait of a Man in Uniform’. When it was published in the Public Foundation Catalogue of paintings in public collections it was recognised
A London view of the Battle of Bannockburn, Liz Knutt
The Bannockburn exhibition at the Smith has some interesting new works of art. This painting, oil on panel, of Bruce slaying de Bohun is by the highly acclaimed London artist, Liz Knutt, who belongs to the Teddington Group. Liz Knutt trained at Edinburgh College of Art and spent many years
Art UK: Art Detectives identify Hamilton Macallum painting location.
The Public Catalogue Foundation now known as Art UK has, over the past ten years photographed 210,000 publicly owned oil paintings from 3,000 collections in the UK. All of which are available to see on the PCF website. The launch of the ‘Art Detective’ programme has opened the doors for