Ashmolean

Opened in 1683, the Ashmolean Museum provided a setting in which a private collection of art and artefacts under the custody of Elias Ashmole (1617-92) came into the public sphere. Over the centuries the Oxford based Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology as it is correctly known, has come to house one of the world’s finest collections of art and antiquities from Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Near East. Its art collection ranges from Italian Renaissance through to 20th Century British paintings and prints. The latter includes a major selection of the Camden Town Group artists as well as the earlier Pre-Raphaelite painters. The Bodleian Library, an integral part of the Ashmolean, houses arguably the country’s finest collection of art reference materials including exhibition catalogues and magazines.

Number of Artists referenced: 331