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Collection Highlights
Browse some of our favourite pieces from the Holburne's extensive collection of fine and decorative art.
Beadwork basket, English, glass beads and lampwork on wire frame, about 1660-70
Framed oil painting: David Garrick as Sir John Brute in ‘The Provok’d Wife’ by Sir John Vanbrugh, Johan Zoffany (1733–1810), oil on canvas c.1763
Johann Zoffany
Oil
Miniature carved scene: Garlanding the Herm, Stephany and Dresch, Bath, ivory on blue glass, about 1795
Ivory
The Witcombe Cabinet, English, japanned and silvered wood, about 1697
Portrait miniature: Richard 'Beau' Nash by Nathaniel Hone, enamel on copper, 1750.
Nathaniel Hone
Enamel
Crouching Venus, Antonio Susini, bronze, about 1600
Antonio Susini
Bronze
Oil painting: Robbing the Bird’s Nest by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, oil on panel.
Pieter Brueghel the Younger
Oil
Embroidered panel: the Restoration of Charles II, English, silk and metal thread raised work, about 1665
English School
Silk
Framed Oil Painting: The Byam Family by Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), oil on canvas, c.1762-66. On long-term loan from the Andrew Brownsword Arts Foundation.
Thomas Gainsborough
Oil
Cameo: Venus rising from the Waves, North Italian, agate, sixteenth century
Chalcedony
Dish: Diana and Actaeon, Siena, tin-glazed earthenware, about 1495
Siena
Maiolica
Oil Painting: Still Life with Cheese, circle of Jan van Kessel I (1626-1679), oil on copper
Jan van Kessel
Oil
Figure of Catherine 'Kitty' Clive, Bow Porcelain Factory, soft-paste porcelain, about 1750
Bow porcelain factory
Porcelain
Sculpture: Diana and Endymion, Giuseppe Plura, marble, 1752
Guiseppe (Joseph) Plura, 1752
Marble
Oil painting: The Temptation of St Anthony by Jan van der Venne, oil on panel.
Jan van de Venne
Oil
Funeral spoon, Amsterdam, silver-gilt, 1664/65
1665
Silver - Silver-gilt
Folding combination fork, spoon and pen, Friedrich Hillebrandt, Nuremberg, silver-gilt, about 1595
Friedrich Hillebrand
Silver - Silver-gilt
Framed oil painting: Henrietta Laura Pulteney (1766-1808) by Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), oil on canvas c. 1777
Angelica Kauffmann
Oil
Framed oil painting: Rosamund Sargent, née Chambers (1722-1792) by Allan Ramsay (1713-1784), oil on canvas 1749
Allan Ramsay, 1749
Oil
Oil Painting: Coast Scene by Francesco Guardi (1712–1793), c.1760
Francesco Guardi
Oil
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