The Laing Art Gallery in

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, England, is located on New Bridge Street West. The gallery was designed in the Baroque style with Art Nouveau elements by architects Cackett & Burns Dick and is now a Grade II

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. It was opened in 1904 and is now managed by

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and sponsored by the

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. In front of the gallery is the Blue Carpet. The building, which was financed by a gift from a local wine merchant, Alexander Laing, is Grade II listed. The gallery collection contains paintings, watercolours and decorative historical objects, including Newcastle silver. In the early 1880s, Newcastle was a major glass producer in the world and enamelled glasses by

William Beilby William Beilby (1740 – 8 October 1819) was an English glassworker known to have produced eminent enamelled glass during the later half of the 18th century. Beilby's father William senior was a goldsmith and jeweller in Durham. Beilby, along w ...

are on view along with ceramics (including Maling pottery), and diverse contemporary works by emerging UK artists. It has a programme of regularly rotating exhibitions and has free entry. The gallery's collection of paintings includes John Martin's dramatic ''

The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ''The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah'' is a painting by the English painter John Martin from 1852. John Martin's painting, shows the biblical story of the destruction of the two cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, which was God's punishment for th ...

'', as well as works by Sir Joshua Reynolds,

Edward Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, (; 28 August, 183317 June, 1898) was a British painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais, Ford Madox Brown and Holman ...

(''Laus Veneris''), '' Isabella and the Pot of Basil'' from 1868 by

William Holman Hunt William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolis ...

, and

Ben Nicholson Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life. Background and training Nicholson was born on 10 April 1894 in De ...

. Local paintings include pictures by

Ralph Hedley Ralph Hedley (31 December 1848 – 14 June 1913) was a realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator, best known for his paintings portraying scenes of everyday life in the North East of England. Biography Born in Gilling West near Richmond, N ...

. There is also a collection of 18th- and 19th-century watercolours and drawings, including work by J. M. W. Turner and

John Sell Cotman John Sell Cotman (16 May 1782 – 24 July 1842) was an English marine and landscape painter, etcher, illustrator, author and a leading member of the Norwich School of painters. Born in Norwich, the son of a silk merchant and lace dealer, Co ...

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