Portrait of an Artist

Unusual amongst British regional galleries, the Laing Art Gallery was gifted to the people of Newcastle without a collection of its own. Alexander Laing was not a connoisseur or collector, and when he wrote to the Newcastle Corporation in 1900 offering to provide the building, he was confident that by the liberality of the inhabitants it would soon be supplied with pictures and statuary for the encouragement and development of British Art.

Precisely as Laing had anticipated, the intervening 120 years have seen the Gallery, through a series of gifts, bequests and purchases, accumulate one of the finest regional collections of fine and decorative art in the country. Changing displays highlight various aspects of the collection, and it is invigorating to be working with Liss Llewellyn once again on an exhibition that draws upon some of its strongest elements of 19th and 20th Century British art.

Works Featured in this catalogue

James Wood (1889 - 1975)
Self-portrait, c.1918
£5,950
Sold
Gavin Bone (1903 - 1942)
Gavin David Bone, by Himself
Barnett Freedman (1901 - 1958)
Portrait of Claudia Guercino, the Artist’s Future Wife
£2,850
William Strang (1859 - 1921)
Seated Nude (reclining, three quarter view)
£9,750
Forthcoming
Albert de Belleroche (1864 - 1944)
Life Study, c.1880
Geoffrey Hamilton Rhoades (1898 - 1980)
Self-portrait, 1941
£3,850
Sold
Gilbert Spencer (1892 - 1979)
Portrait of Doreen Harter, mid 1920’s
Sold
Edith Granger-Taylor (1887 - 1958)
Self-portrait, c.1920
Forthcoming
Albert de Belleroche (1864 - 1944)
Discarded slippers, circa 1890
Mary Adshead (1904 - 1995)
Portrait of Daphne Charlton, c. 1935
£11,950
Sold
Mary Potter (1900 - 1981)
Painting for life class, circa 1920
Sold
Edith Granger-Taylor (1887 - 1958)
Self-portrait with Pig Tails, c.1920
Forthcoming
Albert de Belleroche (1864 - 1944)
Still life with blue pot and folded cloth, late 1880’s
Sold
Colin Gill (1892 - 1940)
Self-portrait, 1910
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Kitchen at Oak Cottage, circa 1937
Joseph Southall (1861 - 1944)
Anna Elizabeth Baker (study for The Coral Necklace), c.1894
£6,800
Percy Horton (1897 - 1970)
Portrait of an artist (possibly Stanley Badmin), c.1925
£8,750
Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)
The Artist’s Boots, 1932
£1,850
Barnett Freedman (1901 - 1958)
The Artist’s Wife, Claudia (née Guercio) at Stanhope Street, c.1926
£7,750
Colin Gill (1892 - 1940)
Flora, 1912
£8,750
Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864 - 1950)
The Creeps, c.1939
£3,450
Reserved
William Roberts (1895 - 1980)
Portrait of May Berry, 1933
Sold
Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Study for People Seeking After Wisdom, 1928
Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Self Portrait in Roman Hat, circa 1925
£9,500
Sold
James Miller (1893 - 1987)
Self-portrait, c.1940
Reserved
Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Self Portrait, nov 1928
Geoffrey Hamilton Rhoades (1898 - 1980)
Self portrait, 1941
Richard Carline (1896 - 1980)
Portrait of Gwendolen Carline
£16,000
Sold
Albert de Belleroche (1864 - 1944)
The dining room of John Singer Sargent, circa 1884
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Portrait of the artists mother, Florence, on a bentwood rocking chair, c.1930 [HMO 797]
Sold
David Foggie (1878 - 1948)
Study of a Young Girl in a Green Dress with Yellow Floral Ornamentation, c.1920
Forthcoming
Albert de Belleroche (1864 - 1944)
Bust lenght female nude, 3/4 view, black background – circa 1880
Henry Arthur Riley (1895 - 1966)
Me, 1940-42
£38,000
Raymond Ray-Jones (1886 - 1942)
Lamp-light (E.I.P), mid-1920s
£3,200
Forthcoming
Albert de Belleroche (1864 - 1944)
Les deux petits pots (Les pots jaunes) – circa 1889
Reserved
Colin Gill (1892 - 1940)
Portrait of Winifred Knights, 1921
Sold
Raymond Ray-Jones (1886 - 1942)
Self-portrait Wearing a Hat, c. 1920
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
The Artist’s Hand with Painted Thistle
£9,750
Phoebe Willetts-Dickinson (1917 - 1978)
A Corner of the Artist’s Studio with paintbox on a Windsor chair, late 30’s
£4,750
Charles H.H. Burleigh (1869 - 1956)
7 Wilbury Crescent, Hove, circa 1900
£9,000
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
The artist’s studio, circa 1938
£6,500
Phyllis Dodd (1899 - 1995)
In the Pentlands, oil on George Rowney Birchmore Board
Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
My bed, rainy day, 1939
£5,850
Donald Chrisholm Towner (1903 - 1985)
Portrait of Charles Mahoney (1903-1968), 1926
£9,750
Reserved
Rudolf Sauter (1895 - 1977)
Soldier (believed to be a self-portrait), 1939
David Tindle (b. 1932)
Self-portrait in a Mirror
£3,800
Sold
Arnold Mason (1885 - 1963)
Portrait of Winifred Knights Sleeping, c.1920
Richard Carline (1896 - 1980)
Self-portrait, 1923
Barnett Freedman (1901 - 1958)
The Stanhope Street Group, 1926
Sold
Margaret Maitland Howard (1898 - 1983)
Female Nude Seated, Rear View, c.1920
Sold
Sir Thomas Monnington (1902 - 1976)
Portrait of Winifred Knights, circa 1931
Forthcoming
Albert de Belleroche (1864 - 1944)
The Artist’s Studio, La Vieille Chapelle, La Boissière, Châteaudun, circa 1909
Sold
Karl Hagedorn (1889 - 1969)
Self-portrait with Pipe
Harry Bush (1883 - 1957)
Snowfall in the Suburbs – A View from the Artist’s House