311/1907
William Miles was a staff officer in the year 1882, based on the uniform he was painted in while sitting for this portrait.
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192/1915
John Commin (1774-1835) was a salter and cheesemonger with premises in North Street, Exeter.
22/1909
‘A Village Wedding (Shere Church, Surrey)’ by John White, c.
193/1915
George Shears (d.1839) was churchwarden of St.
K218
This view looks north-west towards Brentor Church.
123/1978x
‘Near Chulmleigh (Chulmleigh from the River Dart)’ landscape by John Wallace Tucker c.
K220
On some of Dartmoor’s tors are what are known as Logan Stones, such as the Sharpitor Rocks.
35/1935/1
Tucker was an Exeter based marine painter working in a style similar to Thomas Luny.
K221
Gidley (Gidleigh) is a village and civil parish in the West Devon district of Devon, England.
884/1910
Thomas Taunton was the heir to Samuel Taunton and was born in 1744.
119/1935
A favourite subject of Widgery’s, the “Lyd” river and surrounding Lydford area were undeniably a popular subject due to their representation of the more scenic parts of the moor.
57/1949/1
‘The Village Butcher’ by John Cranch, c.
45/1934
Fingle Bridge is a 17th-century stone arch bridge over the River Teign near Drewsteignton.
57/1949/2
‘The Village Baker’ by John Cranch, late-18th to early-19th Century.
K224
85/1950
‘The Village Cooper’ by John Cranch, c.
K230
William Widgery used Dartmoor crosses as dramatic focal points in several paintings.
32/1933
‘Holy Street Mill on the Teign’ by William Spreat, c.
100/1996/3
Watu Lopo (1953 - present) is largely responsible for the development of contemporary Papuan art.
37/1916
The Lyd Valley on north west Dartmoor was the artist’s favourite sketching ground, being close to his Lydford studio.
29/1970
‘Portrait of a Lady in a Landscape’, English School, c.
141/1978x
49/1935/2
‘View on the Dart’ by John Gendall, c.
K245
A rarity, this oval-canvas painting depicts a still-life composed of burdock plants, wild and tangled brambles, and the dense furze shrub.
K229
‘Hawthorn and Chaffinch’ by John Wainwright, c.
K244
Like his son (painter F.J.
K233
‘Still Life with Fruit and Flowers in a Landscape’ by John Wainwright, c.
26/1978
The Adams family of Crediton operated a tannery in the town from 1792 to 1964.
3/1894/3
‘Morning after the Storm - Kenwick Cove, The Lizard’, mid to late-19th Century, by William Williams.
124/1978x
Charles John Follett stands in an interior surrounded by symbols of civic life – a painting of the Guildhall, a seventeenth century style chair, his Mayoral robes – each evoke the long history of the Mayoralty in Exeter.