Tate Britain in general

Housing the greatest collection of British art which spans a five-hundred year period from 1500 to the present day, Tate Britain is deserving of a visit by any serious student or lover of British art. The displays are arranged chronologically and are changed annually, as the collection is too large to be shown in its entirety at any one time. One of the earliest painters whose work is on display is Nicholas Hilliard, born circa 1547. The eighteenth century is well represented: Hogarth was innovative in the early part of that century and made an important contribution to establishing an English school of painting. Those who love traditional portraits of that ...

I have been to the tate britain gallery because my friend said quentin me old china time we learned ya some culture so we went a few weeks ago with my friend and his girlfreind and she wanted to see the nominations for the turner prize and some paintings and it was free to get in Most of the pictures were really good there was some of some women and some men and chairs and there was some carvings made from stone and some old roman coins and there was a room were a lady had squashed a lot of silver gifts and hung them from the roof by string in a circle shape and it was called 30 peaces of silver but there was more than 30 peaces but it did look really good And ...

In 1889, Henry Tate, the sugar magnate, wrote a letter proposing to the National Gallery a donation in return for a collection in his name, it was turned down. Soon after he renewed his offer to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, this time requesting an institution of his own, and possible loans and grants to realise his dream. In 1897 the Tate Gallery was brought into being: an art gallery that began life as the National Gallery of British Art, but was soon to extend its interests abroad, becoming the country's finest collection of British and foreign modern art. The collection began as an annexe to the National Gallery, housing 'modern' ...