TREASURES from the Wordsworth Trust’s art collection are on display in a unique exhibition in Grasmere.
A Celebration of Watercolours is exactly as the name suggests, and features paintings by the likes of Joseph Farington, William Gilpin, John Laporte and William Green.
The exhibition is on display in the museum next to Dove Cottage - the former home of William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy- until Saturday December 23.
The Wordsworth Trust has benefited from the generous assistance of the W.W. Spooner Charitable Trust for many years, helping to bring together a comprehensive art collection, representative of various art practices and Lake District scenery from 1750 onwards.
The unique collection, now cared for by the Wordsworth Trust, helps us better understand the landscape the Wordsworths lived in and were inspired by, and shows the changes since their time – or indeed, the similarities.
The centrepiece, Ouse Bridge by Mathias Read in 1725, is an impressive example of one of the earliest native-born artists to depict the British landscape and often described as ‘the father of Cumbrian painting’.
The exhibition is open daily from 10am to 4.30pm.
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