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Nengi Omuku (1987 - )
Proposals for the Government Art Collection
Peter Liversidge (1973 - )
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Prelude to Cantata Profana: Paroxysm’s rehearsal room, Kassel
Matt Stokes (1973 - )
Sir John Hill (1714-1775) physician, actor, writer and botanist
Francis Cotes (1726 - 1770)
Giovanni Vendramini (1769 - 1839)
London (Garrick), 2008
John Riddy (1959 - )
Capitaine Can Can
Jo Bruton (1967 - )
Theatrical Properties
Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942)
An Italian Opera Singer at the Opera House at Rome
George, the younger Dance (1741 - 1825)
“Hamlet”: … that is the Question
Allen Jones (1937 - )
Dancers
Stephen Buckley (1944 - )
Leandro
Bill Leeson (1934 - )
The Relapse: The Kiss (possibly Act 3, Scene 2)
William Powell Frith (1819 - 1909)
Surrey Institution
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
Joseph Constantine Stadler (1755 - 1828)
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(John) Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd (1904-1978): “Hey Presto! Oops….”
Stanley Franklin (1930 - 2004)
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“Macbeth”: Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible of feeling as to sight? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation?
John S Hawley (1939 - )
Alhambra Ballet “Pasquita” [Paquita]
Spencer Frederick Gore (1878 - 1914)
“A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream”
Cecil Collins (1908 - 1989)
Macbeth
Ernest Alfred Dunn (1937 - )
The Dancer
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
Shimmy
Allen Jones (1937 - )
Hall, Moat House, Ightham, Kent
Joseph Nash (1808 - 1878)
Princess Charlotte & Prince Leopold at Covent Garden
George Dawe (1781 - 1829)
William Thomas Fry (1789 - 1843)
Aquatic Theatre at Sadlers Wells
British 19th century unknown
Untitled
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924 - 2005)
“Princess Pauline” at the Old Bedford
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
The Great Bear
Simon Patterson (1967 - )
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?
Barbara Brownlee (1940 - )
“Richard III”: My kingdom for a horse
Alistair Grant (1925 - 1997)
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“Richard III”
John Hacker (1936 - )
Figure of eight dance: orientation to sources of nectar and pollen
Graham Sutherland (1903 - 1980)
Shakespeare’s Kings
Bernard Cheese (1925 - 2013)
Sophia Western, from Fielding’s “Tom Jones”
John Hoppner (1758 - 1810)
John Raphael Smith (1752 - 1812)
“Macbeth”: Birnham Wood to High Dunsinane
Brian Perrin (1932 - )
Derby Day
William Powell Frith (1819 - 1909)
Auguste Thomas Marie Blanchard (1819 - 1898)
Drury Lane Theatre
Thomas Rowlandson (1756 - 1827)
Auguste Charles Pugin (1762 - 1832)
John Bluck
Dancing Girls
Ben Enwonwu (1917 - 1994)
Maxton as “Hamlet”
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
The Encampment in Hyde Park, 1780
Paul Sandby (1731 - 1809)
As You like It
Julian Trevelyan (1910 - 1988)
12: Dance Floor
Nicholas Garland (1935 - )
Tiller Girls
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889 - 1946)
The Sisters Lloyd
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
Les Deux
Barry Flanagan (1941 - 2009)
Circus Folk
David Bomberg (1890 - 1957)
Covent Garden
Richard Beer (1928 - 2017)
“Julius Caesar”: Et tu Brute
Don Bessant (1941 - )
Britannia Coconut Dancers, Bacup, Lancashire
Homer Sykes (1949 - )
“Hamlet”: Nymph in thy orisons be all my sins remembered
Sandra Blow (1925 - 2006)
London in 1657
British 19th century unknown
“As You Like It”. Dame Peggy Ashcroft as Rosalind: “Wear This For Me”
Walter Richard Sickert (1860 - 1942)
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