The Lytham St Annes Art Collection is a public art collection of over 240 artworks in

Lytham St Annes Lytham St Annes () is a seaside town in the Borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England. It is on the The Fylde, Fylde coast, directly south of Blackpool on the Ribble Estuary. The population at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 census was 42,954 ...

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. Fylde Borough Council are the custodians of the paintings, sculptures, prints and artefacts that are mostly held within the

Lytham St Annes Town Hall Lytham St Annes Town Hall is a municipal building on the South Promenade in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England. The structure, which is used as the headquarters of Fylde Borough Council, is a locally listed building. History The building was ...

. The collection was started in 1925 by the donation of ''Herd Lassie'', painted by

Richard Ansdell Richard Ansdell (11 May 1815 – 20 April 1885) was a British painter of animals and genre scenes. Life Ansdell was born in Liverpool (then in Lancashire), the son of Thomas Griffiths Ansdell, a freeman who worked at the port, and Anne Jacks ...

, to the townspeople of Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. It was donated by John Booth (1857–1941), son of the founder of the grocery store chain

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. The collection of 25 works is now one of the largest public collections of Ansdell's paintings. One of the most notable paintings in the collection is ''The Vision of Catherine of Aragon'' (also called ''Queen Katherine's Dream'') by

Henry Fuseli Henry Fuseli ( ; German: Johann Heinrich Füssli ; 7 February 1741 – 17 April 1825) was a Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art who spent much of his life in Britain. Many of his works, such as ''The Nightmare'', deal with supernatura ...

, which is estimated to be worth about £1.5-2 million, according to a 2013 valuation by

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, making it by far the most valuable item in the collection. In 2008 the Fylde Gallery was opened above the

grocery store in Lytham to display some of the collection, and it is periodically open to the public. In June 2013 the Fylde Decorative and Fine Arts Society was awarded £24,000 from the

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to promote the collection.

Selected artists from the Lytham St Annes Art Collection

Selected artists include: * Allegrain, Christophe-Gabriel * Allom, Thomas * Andreotti, Frederico * Andrieux, Alfred Louis * Ansdell, Richard * Arnold, Patience * Balshaw, Fred * Baratti Fillipo * Barber, Charles Burton * Barker, W D * Baxter, George * Bayer, J * Bennett, Alfred J * Bennett, E * Bond, Henry Winsor * Bond, William J J C * Bough, Samuel * Boulard Il, Auguste * Brierley, Anne * Brown, Mather * Brooke, Percy * Buzzi, Achille * Caffieri Hector * Cant, Leslie * Carter, Samuel John * Catterall, F W * Cattermole, Charles * Chambers, George Junior * Chauvel, Théophile * Cignani, Carlo * Clausen, Sir George * Constable, John * Constantine, George Hamilton * Cooper, Thomas Sidney * Cox, David * Craft, Percy R * Creswick, Thomas * Crossley, W * Crouse, Max (previously M Clause) * Currie, Jessie * de Blaas, Eugene * de Breanski, Alfred Snr * de Heusch, Jacob * de Hoog, Bernard * Dumont, Edme * van Dyck, Anthony * Dyson, Louise Hardy * Earl, Thomas William * Eastwood, Walter * Elliot, H * Elliot, James * Elmore, Alfred W * Ensor, Mary Annie * Evans, Bernard Walter * Faed, Thomas * Farnetti, D * Farquharson, Joseph * Fielding, Anthony Vandyke Copley * Fitton, William * Fox, Henry Charles * Franchini, F S * Frith, William Powell * Frost, William Edward (attributed to the Circle of) * Fuchs, Therese * Fuseli, Henry * Gleave, W H * Glendening, Alfred Augustus Jnr * Glindoni, Henry Gillard * Graham, Peter * Greenhalgh, Thomas * Grundy, Cuthbert Cartwright * Hague, Joshua Anderson * Hardy, Frederick Daniel * Hayes, Edwin * Hayes, George * Herbert, Alfred * Hester, R Wallace * Hider, Frank * Hines, Frederick W * Hirst, Norman * Hodgkinson, Peter * Hogarth, William * Hoppner, John * Howarth, Albany E * Huggins, William * Ireland, Thomas Tayler * Jackson, Fred Williams * Kay-Hilton Jacqueline * Kirchner, Raphael * Landini, Andrea * Landseer, Edwin Henry (after) * Landseer, Thomas * Langlois, Mark William * Laporte, Emile Henri * Leader, Benjamin Williams (after) * Linnell, John * Llangl, H * Longshaw, Frank William * Lutyens, Charles Augustus Henry * Macullum, John Thomas Hamilton * MacWhirter, John * Marshall, Thomas Falcon * McArthur, A E * Mennie, James * Millais, (after) John Everett * Millington, Caroline Alice * Mole, John Henry * Morgan, John * Morland, George * Morris, Alfred * Morris, John Charles * Morris, J D * Mulraney * Munkácsy, Mihály * Myers, E * Oswald, C W * Partington, Harold * Pedder, John * Piffard, Harold H * Pratt, Joseph Bishop * Procter, Henry * Prout, John Skinner * Pyne, James Baker * Rembrandt, van Rijn (after) * Rheam, Henry M * Richardson, Charles * Rigaud, Hyacinthe * Rigby, Cuthbert * Rinaldi, Rinaldo * Robury, Steve * Roe, Clarence H * Romney, George * Sadler, Walter Dendy (after) * Schneider, N N * Scott, Hugh Berry * Shaw, John * Shayer, William * Sheffield, George Jnr * Smith, James Burrell * Sonn, B (after Claus Meyer) * Spence, Benjamin Edward * Thompson * Topham, Francis William * Towers, Samuel * Tucker, Edward Snr * Turner, Joseph Mallord William * Verboeckhoven, Eugene Joseph * Vichi, Ferdinando * Warburton, Stanley * Wardleworth, J L * Wasse, Arthur * West, Benjamin (follower of) * Westall, Richard * White, Kathleen * Williams, Harry (John Henry) * Woodhead, Walter * Woodhouse, Susan * Woodhouse, William Arnold

References

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External links

Art UK
Lytham St Annes Art collections in the United Kingdom