The Lytham St Annes Art Collection is a public art collection of over 240 artworks in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. Fylde Borough Council are the custodians of the paintings, sculptures, prints and artefacts that are mostly held within the Lytham St Annes Town Hall. The collection was started in 1925 by the donation of Herd Lassie, painted by Richard Ansdell, to the townspeople of Lytham St Annes, Lancashire. It was donated by John Booth (1857–1941), son of the founder of the grocery store chain Booths. The collection of 25 works is now one of the largest public collections of Ansdell's paintings., pages 69–70.
One of the most notable paintings in the collection is The Vision of Catherine of Aragon (also called Queen Katherine's Dream) by Henry Fuseli, which is estimated to be worth about £1.5-2 million, according to a 2013 valuation by Christie's, making it by far the most valuable item in the collection.
In 2008 the Fylde Gallery was opened above the Booths grocery store in Lytham to display some of the collection, and it is periodically open to the public. In June 2013 the Fylde Decorative and Fine Arts Society was awarded £24,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to promote the collection.
Selected artists from the Lytham St Annes Art Collection Selected artists include:
Allegrain, Christophe-Gabriel Allom, Thomas Andreotti, Frederico Andrieux, Alfred Louis Ansdell, Richard Arnold, Patience Balshaw, Fred Baratti Fillipo Barber, Charles Burton Barker, W D Baxter, George Bayer, J Bennett, Alfred J Bennett, E Bond, Henry Winsor Bond, William J J C Bough, Samuel Boulard Il, Auguste Brierley, Anne Brown, Mather Brooke, Percy Buzzi, Achille Caffieri Hector Cant, Leslie Carter, Samuel John Catterall, F W Cattermole, Charles Chambers, George Junior Chauvel, Théophile Cignani, Carlo Clausen, Sir George Constable, John Constantine, George Hamilton Cooper, Thomas Sidney Cox, David Craft, Percy R Creswick, Thomas Crossley, W Crouse, Max (previously M Clause) Currie, Jessie de Blaas, Eugene de Breanski, Alfred Snr de Heusch, Jacob de Hoog, Bernard Dumont, Edme van Dyck, Anthony Dyson, Louise Hardy Earl, Thomas William Eastwood, Walter Elliot, H Elliot, James Elmore, Alfred W Ensor, Mary Annie Evans, Bernard Walter Faed, Thomas Farnetti, D Farquharson, Joseph Fielding, Anthony Vandyke Copley Fitton, William Fox, Henry Charles Franchini, F S Frith, William Powell Frost, William Edward (attributed to the Circle of) Fuchs, Therese Fuseli, Henry Gleave, W H Glendening, Alfred Augustus Jnr Glindoni, Henry Gillard Graham, Peter Greenhalgh, Thomas Grundy, Cuthbert Cartwright Hague, Joshua Anderson Hardy, Frederick Daniel Hayes, Edwin Hayes, George Herbert, Alfred Hester, R Wallace Hider, Frank Hines, Frederick W Hirst, Norman Hodgkinson, Peter Hogarth, William Hoppner, John Howarth, Albany E Huggins, William Ireland, Thomas Tayler Jackson, Fred Williams Kay-Hilton Jacqueline Kirchner, Raphael Landini, Andrea Landseer, Edwin Henry (after) Landseer, Thomas Langlois, Mark William Laporte, Emile Henri Leader, Benjamin Williams (after) Linnell, John Llangl, H Longshaw, Frank William Lutyens, Charles Augustus Henry Macullum, John Thomas Hamilton MacWhirter, John Marshall, Thomas Falcon McArthur, A E Mennie, James Millais, (after) John Everett Millington, Caroline Alice Mole, John Henry Morgan, John Morland, George Morris, Alfred Morris, John Charles Morris, J D Mulraney Munkácsy, Mihály Myers, E Oswald, C W Partington, Harold Pedder, John Piffard, Harold H Pratt, Joseph Bishop Procter, Henry Prout, John Skinner Pyne, James Baker Rembrandt, van Rijn (after) Rheam, Henry M Richardson, Charles Rigaud, Hyacinthe Rigby, Cuthbert Rinaldi, Rinaldo Robury, Steve Roe, Clarence H Romney, George Sadler, Walter Dendy (after) Schneider, N N Scott, Hugh Berry Shaw, John Shayer, William Sheffield, George Jnr Smith, James Burrell Sonn, B (after Claus Meyer) Spence, Benjamin Edward Thompson Topham, Francis William Towers, Samuel Tucker, Edward Snr Turner, Joseph Mallord William Verboeckhoven, Eugene Joseph Vichi, Ferdinando Warburton, Stanley Wardleworth, J L Wasse, Arthur West, Benjamin (follower of) Westall, Richard White, Kathleen Williams, Harry (John Henry) Woodhead, Walter Woodhouse, Susan Woodhouse, William Arnold
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External links Art UK