Chelmsford Museum is housed in Oaklands House, a Grade II listed building designed by Charles Pertwee for Frederick Wells, a director of the Chelmsford Brewery, in the 1860s. It also served as a hospital before opening as a museum in 1930. Its Fine Art Collection includes works by artists with a strong local collection.

32 artworks
Garden in January
© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Garden in January 1967

John Arthur Malcolm Aldridge (1905–1983)

Oil on canvas

H 52 x W 76 cm

Chelmsford Museums

The Old Corn Exchange and Market
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

The Old Corn Exchange and Market 1957

Charles Archer (1904–1993)

Oil on board

H 44.3 x W 64.7 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Water Meadows, Boxted
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Water Meadows, Boxted exhibited 1967

Anthony Atkinson (1929–2015)

Oil on canvas

H 76 x W 101.6 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Contained Maze
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Contained Maze 1966

Michael Ayrton (1921–1975)

Acrylic & collage on canvas

H 102 x W 152 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Barnes Lock, Springfield
Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Barnes Lock, Springfield 1906

Alfred Bennett Bamford (1857–1939)

Watercolour on paper

H 12.5 x W 17.5 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Separate Relations
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Separate Relations 1970s

Roderic Barrett (1920–2000)

Oil on canvas

H 120.7 x W 120.7 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Essex Estuary
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Essex Estuary 1976?

Charles Bartlett (1921–2014)

Oil on canvas

H 50.5 x W 60 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Orchard Snowscape, Felsted
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Orchard Snowscape, Felsted 1944

Elinor Bellingham-Smith (1906–1988)

Oil on canvas

H 14 x W 22 cm

Chelmsford Museums

High Noon, Windley
© P. and R. Bliss. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

High Noon, Windley 1951

Douglas Percy Bliss (1900–1984)

Oil on canvas

H 74.3 x W 99.7 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Untitled (Mayes Farm, Sandon)
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Untitled (Mayes Farm, Sandon) 1940

Doris Boulton-Maude (1893–1961)

Oil on canvas

H 50 x W 60 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Smoke
© Carol Hewes and Gillian Mary Webb. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Smoke c.1974 (?)

Reginald Brill (1902–1974)

Oil on board

H 67 x W 49.1 cm

Chelmsford Museums

The Carpenter
© the copyright holder. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

The Carpenter 1977

Geoffrey Norman Burnand (1912–1996)

Oil on canvas

H 167 x W 83 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Leadgate, Cumbria
© the estate of Peter Coker, RA. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Leadgate, Cumbria 1970

Peter Coker (1926–2004)

Oil on canvas

H 62.2 x W 75.5 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Cecil Collins at the Central School of Art, London
© the artist. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Cecil Collins at the Central School of Art, London 1982

Rosalind Cuthbert (b.1951)

Oil on canvas

H 202 x W 67 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Director
© the artist. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Director

John Doubleday (b.1947)

Bronze

H 49 x W 49 x D 1 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Still Life with Bread
© the artist. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Still Life with Bread 1981

Paul Gopal-Chowdhury (b.1949)

Oil on canvas

H 59 x W 74.2 cm

Chelmsford Museums

District Officer F. G. Keen of Chelmsford, OBE, Auxiliary Fire Service
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

District Officer F. G. Keen of Chelmsford, OBE, Auxiliary Fire Service 1942

Bernard Hailstone (1910–1987)

Oil on canvas

H 104 x W 78.8 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Lett Dreaming
© the artist / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Lett Dreaming

Maggi Hambling (b.1945)

Oil on canvas

H 163 x W 122 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Mother and Child
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Mother and Child c.1963–1964

Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones (1908–1968)

Plasticine on wire

H 15.3 x W 10 x D 5 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Winter Landscape: Essex
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Winter Landscape: Essex 1963

Lynton Harold Lamb (1907–1977)

Oil on canvas

H 61.5 x W 73.5 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Late Autumn, Whitebrook Valley
© the copyright holder. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Late Autumn, Whitebrook Valley 1970s?

Edward Lysaght (1902–1997)

Oil on paper

H 45.5 x W 73 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Heroic Still Life
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Heroic Still Life 1981

Stephen McKenna (1939–2017)

Oil on canvas

H 68.6 x W 89.2 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Seascape 1
© the estate of Edward Middleditch, courtesy James Hyman Gallery, London. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Seascape 1 1974

Edward Middleditch (1923–1987)

Oil on canvas

H 116.5 x W 139.5 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Seated Figure
© the artist. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Seated Figure

Dhruva Mistry (b.1957)

Stainless steel

H 51 x W 43 x D 74 cm

Chelmsford Museums

The Swiss Visitor 1925

Cedric Lockwood Morris (1889–1982)

Oil on canvas

H 79.8 x W 63.5 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Pond on Tollesbury Marshes
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Pond on Tollesbury Marshes 1961

John Scorror O'Connor (1913–2004)

Oil on canvas

H 61 x W 75 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Smithfield rosettes
© the estate of Stella Rankin. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Smithfield rosettes 1964

Stella Rankin (1915–2009)

Oil on board

H 40.5 x W 30.5 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Ethel House, Great Bardfield
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Ethel House, Great Bardfield 1942

Kenneth Rowntree (1915–1997)

Oil on canvas on board

H 61.6 x W 77.4 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Sunlight and Sea Wall, Walberswick
© the artist's estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Sunlight and Sea Wall, Walberswick 1968

Lawrence Self (1924–2002)

Oil on canvas

H 101.5 x W 76.2 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Stacking Peas with a view of Waveney Church, Norfolk
© Chelmsford Museums. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Stacking Peas with a view of Waveney Church, Norfolk 1948–1949

Edwin Smith (1912–1971)

Oil on board

H 44 x W 60 cm

Chelmsford Museums

Paper Mills
© the Humphrey Spender Archive. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

Paper Mills 1957

John Humphrey Spender (1910–2005)

Oil on board

H 40.1 x W 56.1 cm

Chelmsford Museums

New Hall Farm, Boreham
© the Ethelbert White estate. Image credit: Chelmsford Museums

New Hall Farm, Boreham

Ethelbert White (1891–1972)

Oil on board

H 27 x W 35.5 cm

Chelmsford Museums