Whitworth Art Gallery

Notable for its collection of British watercolours mainly of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Manchester based Whitworth collection includes works by Turner, Cozens, David Cox, Peter de Wint, Girtin, Cotman and oils by Gainsborough and Constable. The gallery also prides itself on its Pre-Raphaelite collection of artists who include Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown, Lear, Rossetti, Millais elevating its position as one of the countries leading provincial galleries.

The non-British part of the modern collection boasts works by Camille Pissarro, Degas, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, Klee and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.

As one would expect, the largest proportion of the collection is made up of work by British artists from the 20th century. One finds good examples from Sickert, Bomberg, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Surrealism and the Neo-Romantics are also represented with examples by Edward Wadsworth, Roland Penrose, Eileen Agar, John Banting, Edward Burra, Conroy Maddox, John Minton, Graham Sutherland, John Piper and Ceri Richards.

The latter half of the 20th century sees work from Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Eduardo Paolozzi, Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney and Bridget Riley. More recent 21st century examples can be seen in work by Anna Maria Pacheco, Hughie O'Donoghue and Michael Porter.