The Hunterian is also hub to the world’s biggest permanent display of the paintings of James McNeill Whistler, the biggest unmarried preserving of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and The Mackintosh House, the reassembled interiors from his Glasgow home. Hunter’s series is a rare survival of an eighteenth-century photo cabinet and includes masterpieces via Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Philips de Koninck, Rembrandt, George Stubbs and Frans Snyders. The unrivalled Whistler collection is centred at the artist’s property and consists of scholar paintings, nocturnes, seascapes, road views, and photos. The Whistler Collection is complemented with the aid of the considerable Whistler archive inside the University Library, works by using followers, and Impressionist paintings by Eugène Louis Boudin, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Henri Fantin-Latour, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley. Scottish artwork from the nineteenth century to the present is nicely represented with crucial works by means of William McTaggart; the Glasgow Boys; Scottish Colourists; and next generations, inclusive of Joan Eardley, Robin Philipson, Paolozzi (sculpture) and Christine Borland (medium other than oil). The Hunterian continues in its Age on Enlightenment venture to be a relevant resource for research and teaching within the arts, humanities and herbal and clinical sciences, attracting scholars and visitors from round the world.
Hunterian Art Gallery
2021-07-16