Last weekend we stayed at my parents for a few days, and Mum and I took Asha to the Lady Lever Art Gallery.
I havent been for a while, and its one of my favourite places. It has half decent childrens resources, and often some very interesting exhibitions.
Anyway, I wanted to go and see some of the Impressionist works I remebered from there, but I think it must have been from a exhibition at some stage so instead I had a another look at there fantastic display of Pre-Raphalite works and that age old favouraite of mine “The Scape Goat” - William Holman Hunt
Asha did a lovely colouring in of the picture then we went around some of the other paintings and she decided her favourite was one of the sheep in a field. I cant find the painiting right now, but I think its called “sheep in the snow”
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Glad you enjoyed our gallery - that painting is a realy favourite with our visitors! Anyone interested in finding out more about the Lady Lever Art Gallery and its collections can go to the main
National Museums Liverpool website for more information.
Thanks.
I have been trying to work out the name of the picture with the sheep in the snow in the same room as the scapegoat. I haven’t been able to find it online anywhere.. It was my daughters favourite..
Just found the details for Asha’s favourite picture.
‘The shortening winter’s day is near a close’, 1903
Joseph Farquharson (1846 - 1935)
Farquharson came to specialize in painting sheep in the snow, enabling him to contrast the hard, smooth finish of the snow with the soft, shaggy texture of the sheep — a contrast all the sharper because both are white. The setting sun, shining at the spectator, only makes the total effect all the more an ingenious test of the artist’s skill in portraying subtleties of reflected colour and tone on his white surfaces. Farquharson’s titles sound like quotations, but in fact are his own inventions.
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ladylever/collections/shortening.asp