TREASURES from the Wordsworth Trust’s art collection will be on display in a new exhibition in Grasmere, which opens next month.

A Celebration of Watercolours is exactly as the name suggests, and features paintings by celebrated names such as 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, who wrote her journals at Grasmere - from Friday September 1 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 practises and Lake District scenery from 1750 onwards.

A unique collection, now cared for by the Wordsworth Trust, it 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.

This exhibition will also highlight artists that many people may not have heard of, but who equally present the beautiful and intricate details of the landscape in their work.

The centre-piece will be Ouse Bridge, from 1725, an impressive example of the work of Mathias Read, one of the earliest native-born artists to depict the British landscape and often described as ‘the father of Cumbrian painting’.

The exhibition will be open daily from 10am to 4.30pm.