Tate Britain
The Tate Britain ( a previous name was Tate Gallery of British Art ) is a museum in London, where the world's largest collection of British art from the 16th to the 21st century is shown.
History
End of the 19th century, the British government made the sugar millionaire Sir Henry Tate an offer: If you could provide a corresponding property, he would have to build a gallery for modern British art there, and his own collection of over 60 paintings by renowned British artist of the nation as bequeath ground floor of the exhibition. As the site Millbank was selected demolished property situated in London's largest prison, and already on 21 July 1897, the Tate Gallery opened its doors in a designed by Sidney RJ Smith neoclassical building on the banks of the Thames. The collection should be limited to British artists who were born after 1790, but donations such as the Turner estate ( William Turner was born in 1775 ) and a collection of Impressionists led to a reorientation. In 1917, international artists, as well as British -born before 1790 were admitted. Thus, the Tate Gallery presented mainly with two topics: . English Painting from the 16th to the late 19th century and international modernist painting since 1880 was 1955, the Tate Gallery formally separated from the National Gallery in 1968 and decided that the collections British painter should be more clearly defined in each gallery.
In the newly built Clore Gallery, designed by Sir James Stirling and made possible by the Clore Foundation, which was opened in 1987, and the estate of William Turner can now be adequately represented.
In order to present this now world's largest collection of British art ever fair, it was decided some years ago to a division of the museum. The holdings of the International Contemporary Art since 2000 can be seen in the new Tate Gallery of Modern Art in the building of the former Bankside Power Station. In the Tate Britain the works are now shown in themed galleries. Additional rooms for many exhibits that had been stored for years for reasons of space, were created. In fact, 35 % display capacity could be gained. Thus, the Tate Britain is again very concept according to their origin and documented the British art from 1500 to the present.
Collection
There are here at the 3500 paintings, to prints and sculptures. Every year new works are added. The naive formalism of portraits from Tudor and Stuart - time show an example of the anonymous work The Sisters Cholmondeley (1600-1610), two sisters who were born on the same day, married and gave birth to their first child, or Hans Eworths Portrait of a Lady ( 1565-1568 ). Is also unusual Evert Collier Trompe l' Oeil of Newspapers (around 1695-1700 ).
In the 18th century British painters responded to the Enlightenment. Among the paintings by William Hogarth is one of a series of his servants (around 1750-1755 ). Also, here depend George Stubbs ' horse, a lion devoured ( 1765 ) and The Harvesters ( 1785 ) and Reynolds Picture The Three Graces adorn a hymen - Terme (1774 ) and various works by Gainsborough, including Giovanna Baccelli ( about 1782 ). One of each participating artist is the American John Singer Sargent paintings with the Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1885-1886) and Portrait of Mrs Barnard (1885 ).