The Victoria Art Gallery is the public art museum in Bath. It is run by Bath & North East Somerset Council and houses its collection of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.
The collection includes many works by artists who have lived and worked in the area, such as Thomas Gainsborough and Walter Sickert. In the 18th century Bath was an important centre for portrait painting, in the 20th century it again became famous with the innovative works produced by artists working at Bath Academy of Art.
The Upper Gallery houses a permanent display of the best works from the collection. The Gallery is currently closed to the public, but all of the works on our walls can be viewed here in this virtual display.
The Interior of the Victoria Art Gallery, 1903
Hester Quinton Eversley (1877-1965)
Hugo van der Goes (c.1440–1482) (circle of)
Oil on board
H 43.3 x W 72.3 cm
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Hans Holbein the younger (c.1497–1543) (after)
Oil on board
H 90.5 x W 73 cm
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The Entry of Cosimo de' Medici into Venice, 1533 1604
Louis de Caullery (before 1582–after 1621)
Oil on copper
H 48.5 x W 67.3 cm
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Landscape with Travellers c.1600–c.1700
Jan Brueghel the elder (1568–1625) (circle of)
Oil on copper
H 19.3 x W 24.7 cm
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Vespers c.1625
Peeter Neeffs the elder (c.1578–1656/1661)
Oil on panel
H 28.7 x W 23.6 cm
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The Church of the Dominican Friars, Antwerp c.1630
Peeter Neeffs the elder (c.1578–1656/1661)
Oil on panel
H 28.3 x W 23.4 cm
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Campo Vaccino, Rome 1653
Adriaen de Bie (1593–1668)
Oil on canvas
H 122.2 x W 202.8 cm
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Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
Izaack van Oosten (1613–1661) (attributed to)
Oil on board
H 29.1 x W 41 cm
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A Cat Watching Rabbits and Fowl
David de Coninck (1636–1699)
Oil on canvas
H 46.9 x W 53.3 cm
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Queen Mary of Modena (1658–1718)
Willem Wissing (1656–1687) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 58.5 x W 47.5 cm
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Benedetto Gennari the younger (1633–1715)
Oil on canvas
H 129.5 x W 101.2 cm
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Isaak van Nickele (1632/1633–1703) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 112.5 x W 163 cm
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Old Woman and Boy with Candles
Godfried Schalcken (1643–1706) (attributed to)
Oil on panel
H 43.3 x W 31.3 cm
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Portrait of an Unknown Gentleman 1709
Pieter van der Werff (1665–1722)
Oil on canvas
H 47.5 x W 39.5 cm
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Portrait of an Unknown Lady 1709
Pieter van der Werff (1665–1722)
Oil on canvas
H 46.7 x W 40.6 cm
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Cloudesley Shovell (1650–1707) c.1716
Francis Bird (1667–1731)
Marble
H 73 x W 55 x D 35 cm
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Ladymead House, Walcot, Bath c.1730
British School
Oil on canvas
H 68.2 x W 98.1 cm
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J. Gay c.1738
Charles Jervas (c.1675–1739) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 75 x W 62 cm
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Lambeth Palace, London c.1750
Samuel Scott (c.1702–1772) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 59.4 x W 99.6 cm
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Alexander Pope (1688–1744) mid-18th C
Prince Hoare the elder (1711–1769)
Marble
H 35 x W 16.6 x D 14 cm
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Thomas Rumbold (1736–1791), and Son
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
Oil on canvas
H 234 x W 153 cm
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Christopher Nugent (1698–1775), MD 1772
James Barry (1741–1806)
Oil on canvas
H 76.2 x W 63.5 cm
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William Dawson, MC at Bath Upper Assembly Rooms (1777–1786) 1778
Thomas Hickey (1741–1824) (after)
Oil on canvas
H 84 x W 72 cm
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Sophia Dumergue (1768–1831) c.1780
Johann Zoffany (1733–1810)
Oil on panel
H 76 x W 61.5 cm
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Charles Dumergue (1739–1814) c.1780
Johann Zoffany (1733–1810)
Oil on canvas
H 76 x W 64 cm
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Joseph Farington (1747–1821) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 154 x W 214 cm
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Roger Kemble (1721–1802) c.1786
Thomas Beach (1738–1806) (attributed to)
Oil on canvas
H 20.4 x W 17.4 cm
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'Old Tom Thumb', Richard Brent (1682–1790) 1789
Thomas Barker (1769–1847)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 43.2 cm
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Thomas Barker and His Preceptor Charles Spackman 1789
Thomas Barker (1769–1847)
Oil on canvas
H 122.9 x W 152.4 cm
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A Storm with Smuggler's Landing 1791
Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812)
Oil on canvas
H 114.5 x W 165 cm
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Hebe 1795
Antonio Canova (1757–1822) (copy after)
Marble
H 163 x W 69 x D 78 cm
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Peter Turnerelli (1774–1839)
Marble
H 92 x W 56 x D 36 cm
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Lieutenant General Sir William Cockburn (1769–1835), 6th Bt 1816
Thomas Barker (1769–1847)
Oil on canvas
H 239 x W 147.3 cm
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Moonlight Scene 1819
Sebastian Pether (1790–1844)
Oil on canvas
H 61.7 x W 88.3 cm
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John Arthur Roebuck (1801–1879) 1832
James Green (1771–1834)
Oil on canvas
H 77 x W 63.5 cm
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The Bride of Death 1839
Thomas Jones Barker (1815–1882)
Oil on canvas
H 124.5 x W 167.1 cm
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David Cox the elder (1783–1859)
Oil on board
H 28 x W 36.7 cm
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Still Life, Fruit c.1854
William Duffield (1816–1863)
Oil on canvas
H 28.1 x W 33.3 cm
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Jephthah's Daughter 1860
John Warrington Wood (1839–1886)
Marble
H 167 x W 47 x D 58 cm
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The Rialto Bridge, Venice 1869
Calvert Richard Jones (1804–1877)
Oil on canvas
H 99.1 x W 147.3 cm
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The Dogana, Venice 1869
Calvert Richard Jones (1804–1877)
Oil on canvas
H 92.5 x W 138 cm
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The Truant in Hiding 1870
John Callcott Horsley (1817–1903)
Oil on canvas
H 74.3 x W 71.7 cm
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My Lady's Page exhibited 1873
John Robert Dicksee (1817–1905)
Oil on canvas
H 32.5 x W 23 cm
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Frederick George Cotman (1850–1920)
Oil on canvas
H 20.3 x W 25 cm
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Anna Bilinska (1857–1893) 1884
Emmeline Deane (1858–1944)
Oil on canvas
H 128 x W 90.7 cm
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To Market in a Snow Drift 1887
Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902)
Oil on canvas
H 96.6 x W 154.9 cm
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The Draught Players c.1890
Robert Gemmell Hutchison (1855–1936)
Oil on canvas
H 29.3 x W 39.6 cm
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The Raising of Jairus' Daughter 1889
Edwin Long (1829–1891)
Oil on canvas
H 135 x W 184 cm
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Fordwich Meadows, Canterbury, Kent 1889
Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902)
Oil on canvas
H 61 x W 91.7 cm
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Saint Elizabeth of Hungary 1895
George James Frampton (1860–1928)
Oil on panel
H 96.3 x W 35.5 cm
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Saint Dorothea 1895
George James Frampton (1860–1928)
Oil on panel
H 96.3 x W 35.5 cm
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John Stone (1818–1899), Town Clerk (1860–1898) c.1898–1900
Albert Bruce-Joy (1842–1924)
Marble
H 88 x W 76 x D 32 cm
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The Watersplash 1900
Henry Herbert La Thangue (1859–1929)
Oil on canvas
H 116.8 x W 94 cm
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Robert McGregor (1847–1922)
Oil on canvas
H 67 x W 106.7 cm
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Horace Annesley Vachell (1861–1955) c.1900
Gaston Linden (1861–1940)
Oil on canvas
H 114.6 x W 87.9 cm
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Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 40.6 cm
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The Artist's Wife c.1905
William Logsdail (1859–1944)
Oil on canvas
H 200.7 x W 85 cm
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Portrait of 'Pilu', a Performing Dog 1910
John Charlton (1849–1917)
Oil on canvas
H 38.4 x W 30.5 cm
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William Harbutt (1844–1921) 1911
Edwin Whitney-Smith (1880–1952)
Bronze
H 73 x W 55 x D 47 cm
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Study and Sketch of Two Figures
Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956)
Oil on canvas
H 33 x W 43 cm
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Belmount and Back of Assembly Rooms 1917
Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)
Oil on panel
H 29.6 x W 21.8 cm
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Children at Play 1920
Joseph Edward Southall (1861–1944)
Tempera on board
H 33 x W 39 cm
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San Giorgio, Venice 1927
Joseph Edward Southall (1861–1944)
Tempera on board
H 34 x W 26.8 cm
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John Armstrong (1893–1973)
Tempera on board
H 64 x W 36 cm
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Canal Bridge, Sydney Gardens, Bath c.1927
John Northcote Nash (1893–1977)
Oil on canvas
H 71 x W 76.2 cm
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Frank Coombs (1906–1941) c.1930
Glyn Warren Philpot (1884–1937)
Oil on canvas
H 55 x W 38 cm
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Charles Baker (1841–1932), the Chairmaker, Bath 1930
Frederick George Swaish (1879–1931)
Oil on canvas
H 74 x W 61.5 cm
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The Sketchers 1930
Algernon Talmage (1871–1939)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 60.1 cm
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Roses in a Blue Vase c.1930
Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith (1879–1959)
Oil on canvas
H 60 x W 45 cm
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The Dressmakers 1931
William Patrick Roberts (1895–1980)
Oil on canvas
H 50.8 x W 40.6 cm
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The Foreign Bloke c.1933
Rex Whistler (1905–1944)
Oil on board
H 35.7 x W 24.7 cm
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London Street, Bath c.1941
Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942)
Oil on canvas
H 48.3 x W 79 cm
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Bottle and Fish Slice 1949 or 1950
William Scott (1913–1989)
Oil on canvas
H 40.8 x W 50.8 cm
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People in the Wind 1951
Kenneth Armitage (1916–2002)
Bronze
H 65 x W 39 x D 32.5 cm
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