Ferens Art Gallery
| Ferens Art Gallery | |
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  Location within the East Riding of Yorkshire | |
| Established | 1927 |
| Location | Queen Victoria Square, Hull |
| Coordinates | 53°44′36″N 0°20′21″W / 53.74337°N 0.33912°W |
| Website | Ferens Art Gallery |
The Ferens Art Gallery is an art gallery in the English city of Kingston upon Hull. The site and money for the gallery were donated to the city by Thomas Ferens, after whom it is named. Opened in 1927,[1] it was restored and extended in 1991. The gallery features an extensive array of both permanent collections and roving exhibitions. Among the exhibits is a portrait of an unknown woman by Frans Hals. The building also houses a children's gallery and a popular cafe. The building is now a Grade II listed building.[2]
The architects were S. N. Cooke and E. C. Davies.[2] In 2013 the gallery acquired a fourteenth-century painting by Pietro Lorenzetti depicting Christ Between Saints Paul and Peter. The acquisition was jointly funded by the Ferens Endowment Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Art Fund. [3]
Art in the Ferens Art Gallery
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Frans Hals, Portrait of a Woman (between 1655 and 1660)
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Frederic Leighton, Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon, 1869
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Charles Edward Perugini, A Summer Shower, c. 1888
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Herbert James Draper, Ulysses and the Sirens, c. 1909
References
- ↑ "Ferens Art Gallery". Hull City Council. Retrieved 20 October 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Historic England. "Ferens Art Gallery (1218995)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- ↑ "Hull's Ferens Art Gallery acquires £1.6 million masterpiece". BBC News. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
External links
Media related to Ferens Art Gallery at Wikimedia Commons
- Ferens Art Gallery
- Historic England. "Details from listed building database (387754)". Images of England.