Leeds City Art Gallery: 'Picture of the Month', 1950-1952

Includes the following issues of 'The Picture of the Month : treasures from Yorkshire houses', with annotations made in 1959:

-No. 36 May 1950: 'Lord Walter Strickland' by follower of van Dyck from Boynton Hall

-No. 38 July 1950: 'Pieta' by Luis Morales from Ledston Hall

-No. 39 August 1950: 'The Duchess of Burgundy and children' by the School of Mignard from Cliffe Castle

-No. 40 September 1950: 'The Children of the first Lord Grantham' attributed to Philippe Mercier from Newby Hall

-No. 41 October 1950: 'The Finch Family' by Charles Philips from Wentworth Woodhouse

-No. 42 November 1950: 'Europa and the bull' by Luca Giordano from Hickleton Hall

-No. 44 February 1951: 'Distant view of Haarlem' by Philips Koninck from Harewood House

-No. 45 March 1951: 'Lady Stanhope and Lady Effingham' by Francis Cotes from Methley Hall

-No. 47 May 1951: 'The truants' by William Redmore Bigg from Swinton Castle

-No. 49 August 1951: 'The Infant Hercules' by Sir Joshua Reynolds from Wentworth Woodhouse

-No. 50 October 1951: 'Sir William St. Quintin of Harpham' by Hermann Tom Ring from Scampston Hall

-No. 51 November 1951: 'Blind man's buff' by J.B.J. Pater from Swinton Castle

-No. 52 December 1951: 'Moonlight scene' by Aert van der Neer from Temple Newsam House

-No. 53 January 1952: 'Mrs Page (Merry Wives of Windsor)' by Fuseli from Leeds University

-No. 54 February 1952: 'Ruins with figures' by Leonardo Coccorante from Temple Newsam House

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Leeds City Art Gallery produced a series of small publications about famous individual pictures loaned from Yorkshire houses, which were shown for a period of one month. Starting in 1946 and continuing until 1952, the scheme was intended to provide the opportunity for the study of masterpieces not usually on public display. A black and white photograph of the relevant work of art appears in each publication, together with provenance information. It would appear that this material was acquired by Knoedler's London office, and Simpson used it for his research on collections.