The Great British Art Tour
In this series, a collaboration with Art UK, curators introduce works of art from our national collections
The Great British Art Tour quiz: a 17th-century selfie, a scallop and a small dog
As museums and galleries finally reopen, our Great British Art Tour comes to an end with a quiz to celebrate some of our favourite discoveries from the series. Have you been paying attention?
The Great British Art Tour: ‘I thought I was going to scream with boredom and pain’
As art galleries prepare for reopening, our virtual tour exploring highlights from the UK’s public collections reaches its final week. Today’s pick: Euan Uglow’s Curled Nude on a Stool, in Hull’s Ferens Gallery
The Great British Art Tour: Pulp fiction - wallpaper with a story to tell
As art galleries prepare for reopening, our virtual tour exploring highlights from the UK’s public collections reaches its final week. Today’s pick: Uncle Tom’s Cabin wallpaper in Manchester’s Whitworth
The Great British Art Tour: Scene from a warm Victorian marriage
As art galleries prepare for reopening, our virtual tour exploring highlights from the UK’s public collections enters its final week. Today’s pick: Elizabeth Allan-Fraser Seated, Reading With a Cat in Arbroath’s Hospitalfield House
The Great British Art Tour: the tears of a clown
With most public art collections still closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Ethel Wright’s Bonjour, Pierrot! in Oldham
The Great British Art Tour: the ugly duchess, warts and all
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Massys’s An Old Woman in the National Gallery, London
The Great British Art Tour: Gladstone’s fallen woman gives life to Dante’s muse
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today: William Dyce’s Beatrice, in Aberdeen
The Great British Art Tour: Lady Anne’s fight for rights, a story in three parts
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: The Great Picture at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
The Great British Art Tour: joy and heartache of motherhood laid bare on a beach
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: the Royal Academy’s Looking Towards Bexhill by Chantal Joffe
The Great British Art Tour: the birthplace of a future prime minister
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: David Lloyd George’s Birthplace, Manchester in the Lowry, Salford
The Great British Art Tour: how a French artist gave us plenty to see in Barnard Castle
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights and hidden gems from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Joséphine Bowes’s Château du Barry in the Bowes museum
The Great British Art Tour: from a ceiling alcove, an artist’s quiet gaze
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights and hidden gems from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Nina Cust’s self-portrait in Belton House
The Great British Art Tour: Chagall leaves his dreams for a living nightmare
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Apocalypse en Lilas, Capriccio by Marc Chagall, in London’s Ben Uri gallery.
The Great British Art Tour: smoke tracks in a summer sky and Britain’s fight for survival
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Paul Nash’s Battle of Britain at the Imperial War Museum London
The Great British Art Tour: a girl with a pearl earring
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring hidden gems from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today: Woman in a Red Dress, at Polesden Lacey
The Great British Art Tour: a crystalline cave to dazzle and unsettle
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Anya Gallaccio’s The Light Pours Out Of Me, in West Lothian
The Great British Art Tour: a barn, a bomb and a bond that united three women
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights and hidden gems from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Edith Ailsa Craig by Clare Atwood at Smallhythe Place
The Great British Art Tour: what connects a bleeding fresco with Lady Hamilton?
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: The Festival of the Madonna dell’Arco by Pietro Fabris at Compton Verney in Warwickshire
The Great British Art Tour: the post-pandemic protests that echo into today
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Robert Koenig’s After the Uprising sculpture in Essex
The Great British Art Tour: one of the most important women in NHS history
With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today’s pick: Belfast’s portrait of Professor Mollie McGeown by Laurence Coulter
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