The first exhibit was photos of the Manchester area in the 60’s and 70’s. I focused on the kids with the last one my favorite. Such joy!

F.R. Pickersgill Samson Betrayed. And this original Banksy is on plywood

William Etty’s Sirens and Ulysess And Charles Bently’s Mon St Michael

Marshall Ney Supporting the rear Guard retreating from Moscow – A. Youn And William Hunt’s Shadow of Death

And Hunt’s The Hireling Shepard Millais’ Winter Fuel

Richard Ansdell paints The Chase Sir Edward Millais all ogive us Autumn Leave


The Herring Market at Sea by Colin Hunter and Alexander von Wagner’s The Chariot Race

Henry VIII wanted a divorce and sent his cardinals to Katherine of Aragon in Wm Bromley’s painting But the whole point of Pettie’s Duke on Monmouth’s Interview with James II (Interview? Ha) after a failed coup attempt is the expression on the King’s face

Wm Powell The Highwayman Claude Duval and Sappho, a Greek poet around 600 BC by Charles-August Mengin

J W Waterhouse – Hylas & the Nymphs But how cool is The Little White Cross by Frank Spenlove


Samuel J L Birch and December Orpheus John Macallum Swan

I loved The Landlord by Wm Micholson And the detail in the woman’s outfit called One of our Conquerors by Frank Dicksen

And of all the paintings by Adolph Valette on display I liked Albert Square, Manchester the best. Even the building was art

As was this combination of new and old I saw as I left. Don’t think that you don’t have to see this fine gallery now that I’ve shown you a taste because that is all I gave you. There is so much more.

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