![Album 13 English Garden Design, A Surrey Cottage by Helen Allingham, 1880, watercolour. Hampstead Museum, Burgh House, London. Watercolour painting of a Tudor cottage.A lady and her two young children stand in the front garden surrounded by cottage flowers and a row of bee hives, english garden design](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_300,h_224/https://livingpaintings.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Album-13-English-Garden-Design-A-Surrey-Cottage-by-Helen-Allingham-300x224.jpg)
![Album 1 The first collection of paintings from the National Gallery, Arnolfini Marriage by Jan van Eyck, 1434, oil on oak. Portrait of a wealthy couple holding hands in their bedchamber. The man on the left wears a long black gown and large brimmed top hat the lady on the right wears a fine green gown and frilled white veil. A small dog stands by her feet.](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_auto,q_glossy,ret_img,w_300,h_230/https://livingpaintings.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Album-1-The-First-Collection-of-Paintings-from-The-National-Gallery-Arnolfini-Marriage-300x230.jpg)
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We have chosen 11 works of art from the treasure house that is Tate Britain, London. This collection doesn’t disappoint with a feast of paintings and sculptures with wonderful stories to be discovered – stroll down the Chain Pier in Brighton with Turner and meet William Hogarth’s dog. The artists range from the early 17th century to the 21st century and included is the façade and floor plan so that listeners can imagine themselves in the gallery space.
William Hogarth stares out at us, his direct gaze is almost challenging, his chin is jutting forward, his shoulders squared. Beside him on the right is his pug dog Trump. The dog's character reflects that of his master ready to take on the world. In the bottom left corner of the picture is Hogarth's palette with a sinuous line strongly emphasised upon it 'The line of beauty and grace' is written below. We shall discuss this important line shortly. The artist has put an oval frame round his portrait and this seems to rest on three volumes, the works of Shakespeare, Swift and Milton, all English authors who inspired Hogarth's own commitment to drama, satire and epic poetry.
Tate Britain Facade and Floor Plan
The Cholmondeley Ladies – Anon
The Painter and his Pug by William Hogarth
Sunset, Carthorses Drinking at a Stream by Thomas Gainsborough
Chain Pier, Brighton by John Constable
The Chain Pier, Brighton by Joseph Mallord William Turner
Ophelia by John Everett Millais
The Centurion’s Servant by Stanley Spencer
White Relief by Ben Nicholson
Recumbent Figure by Henry Moore
$he by Richard Hamilton
Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy by David Hockney
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