Sheffield Art Gallery

Weston Park Museum was previously known as the Sheffield City Museum and Mappin Art Gallery until 2006. It opened in 1875 and housed Sheffield's archaeology, natural history, decorative art and social history collections. The neo-classical building was completed in 1868 and twice extended with some of the extension works funded by donations from local businessman John George Graves. Thus the name of the Graves Gallery was added. The Mappin Art Gallery had a small section given over to a rotating exhibition of the city's collection, but the majority of its galleries contained a contemporary mixture of commissions and touring exhibitions. The building closed in March 2003 for a complete renovation. The £17.3 million re-development was partly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and it was reopened in October 2006 as Weston Park Museum which is managed under the umbrella of Museums Sheffield. The Harold Cantor Gallery within the complex houses temporary exhibitions, which can change up to four times a year.

The collections, spanning the 16th to the 21st-century house works by famous names such as Old Masters Jan Mytens, Morales, Ribera, Murillo, Proccaccini and Pittoni. The 18th and 19th centuries are represented by JMW Turner, Thomas Gainsborough, Sisley, George Romney, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Rossetti and Millais with Impressionist examples by Pierre Bonnard, Cezanne, Vuillard and Lautrec. Works by Egon Schiele, Picasso, Dali and Miro can also be seen. Modern British art is present with works by David Bomberg, Gwen John, Henry Moore and Stanley Spencer. Latter-day 20th and early 21st century works can also be seen with examples by Frank Auerbach, Helen Chadwick, John Hoyland, Marc Quinn, Bridget Riley, Sam Taylor-Wood and local heroes such as George Fullard and Derrick Greaves.

Number of Artists referenced: 842