Pencil – IMS Photography

The Power of Good

Ian Malpass-Scott — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:54:00 +0000

A label on the back of their picture refers to the impossibility of ridding the world of foolishness.

The elderly ma has forgotten the dignified behaviour appropriate to his age and respectable standards (suggested by his sober, black clothing).

Instead, he s dancing with abandon to the music. Although painted in the early nineteenth century, this picture is set around seventy years earlier, the subject and style of the picture were influenced by Dutch seventeenth century paintings of ordinary life. Thomas Good was a Berwick-upon-Tweed artist.

Provenance: bequeathed by William Wilson, 1955

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Thomas Sword Good (1789-1872)
Date: 1823

Image Details
Date: 2 Masy 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/28s
ISO: 640
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Mrs Katherine Vulliamy

Ian Malpass-Scott — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:54:00 +0000

Mrs Katherine Vulliamy by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941)

John Lavery came to prominence in Glasgow, where he was involved with the artists known as the ‘Glasgow Boys’. He became widely known and later moved to London. He was elected a Royal Scottish Academician in 1896.

Provenance: Gift, 1955. Shipley Art Gallery

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Sir John Lavery (1856-1941)
Date: 1908

Image Details
Date: 2 Masy 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/37s
ISO: 320
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Lady Reading a Book

Ian Malpass-Scott — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:54:55 +0000

Born in Birmingham, Greenberg attended the Slade School of Fine Art and won first prize in the portrait drawing category in 1918. She demonstrated great promise as an artist, but little is known about her until her death is recorded aged 43.

Provenance: Purchased from Redfern Gallery, 1931

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil & pencil on canvas
Artist: Mabel Greenberg (1889-1933)
Date: before 1931

Image Details
Date: 6 March 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/25s
ISO: 400
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

View of the Ruins of Tynemouth Monastery

Ian Malpass-Scott — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:54:55 +0000

Clennell made this striking watercolour as part of his collaboration with the writer Sir Walter Scott on the publication, The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland (1814). Contrasting historic ruins with a stormy sky was popular at this time. The low viewpoint and tiny figures seen at the foot of the ruined monastery emphasise its size, while the sunlight streaming through the windows suggests the presence of spiritual, as well as natural, forces.

Provenance: Bequeathed by Miss A.J. Thompson, 1945

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Pencil, watercolour & bodycolour
Artist: Luke Clennell (1781-1840)
Date: about 1813-14

Image Details
Date: 6 March 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Telephoto Camera 52mm ƒ/2.4
Focal Length: 52mm
Aperture: ƒ/2.4
Shutter Speed: 1/32s
ISO: 500
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Miners: Entrance to an Iron Mine

Ian Malpass-Scott — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:54:55 +0000

This 1845 work depicts an iron mine in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. At the time, the iron mining industry was at its peak. The watercolour emphasises the scale of the rock surrounding the group of miners and the intimidating darkness of the tunnel entrance we see behind them.n.

Provenance: Bequeathed by Thomas Burrell Bewick, 1922

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Pencil & watercolour
Artist: J. B. Brown
Date: about 1845

Image Details
Date: 6 March 2026
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/28s
ISO: 500
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Catherine

Ian Malpass-Scott — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:54:55 +0000

Catherine Earnshaw, a character from Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights, fascinated Clarke Hall.

Here, she depicted Catherine standing in a moorland landscape. The muted colour palette and use of a wet-on-wet watercolour technique create an uncertain emotional atmosphere. On the left, the artist included a depiction of her son.

Provenance: Gift from the Walker Mechanics Institute, 1942

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Pencil & watercolour
Artist: Lady Edna Clarke Hall (1879-1979)
Date: about 1914-15

Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Bt (1645-1697)

Ian Malpass-Scott — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:22:39 +0000

Pencil and grey wash on paper, Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Bt (1645-1697) after Willem Wissing (Amsterdam 1656 – Burghley House 1687). Head and shoulders in a full bottom wig, inscribed ‘Sir John Fenwick, Bart’. His wife’s portrait is WAL/D/3.

Provenance: Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt

Label tied on back of frame: Object – Drawing of Sir J Fenwick Inventory No – WAL/D/2 Present location – East Corridor Written on bottom of portrait: Sir John Fenwick, Bart

Text from National Trust website

Object description
Type: Drawing
Location: Wallington Hall, Northumberland
Material: Pencil & wash on paper
Artist: after Willem Wissing (1656-1687)
Date: 1801-1900

Image Details
Date: 19 October 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/17s
ISO: 800
Licensing: Image of a National Trust asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Lady Mary Howard, Lady Fenwick (d.1708)

Ian Malpass-Scott — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:22:39 +0000

Pencil and grey wash on paper, Lady Mary Howard, Lady Fenwick (d.1708) after Michael Dahl (Stockholm 1656/9 – London 1743). Inscribed Lady Mary Fenwick ( wife of Sir John Fenwick, see WAL/D/2), shown seated three-quarters left, her left arm resting on a stone balustrade in front of a vase. Her right hand is holding a miniature, presumably of her husband.

Provenance: Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt

Marks & inscriptions: Bottom of portrait : Lady Mary Fenwick Hanging tag on back of portrait: Object – Drawing Lady Mary Fenwick Inventory – WAL/D/3

Text from National Trust website

Object description
Type: Drawing
Location: Wallington Hall, Northumberland
Material: Pencil & wash on paper
Artist: after Michael Dahl (1659-1743)
Date: 1801-1900

Image Details
Date: 19 October 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/19s
ISO: 800
Licensing: Image of a National Trust asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Dunstanburgh Castle

Ian Malpass-Scott — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:43:00 +0000

Turner visited the north of England as a young man in 1797. This watercolour is based on a sketch made during this tour. His time in Northumberland included visits to Warkworth, Bamburgh and Lindisfarne as well as Dunstanburgh, just north of Craster. This dramatic view of Dunstanburgh Castle demonstrates the generally darker colour palette Turner used in his early career.

Provenance: purchased with aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund, the Friends of the Laing Art Gallery, and Trustees of the John Wigham Richardson Bequest Fund, 1982

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Pencil and watercolour on paper
Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)
Date: 1798

Image Details
Date: 19 June 2024
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/25s
ISO: 400
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Sundae Lunch

Ian Malpass-Scott — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 17:29:00 +0000

Provenance: On loan from Minchella & Co.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: South Shields Museum & Art Gallery, Tyne & Wear
Material: Coloured pencil on paper
Artist: Joanne Elliott
Date: unknown

Image Details
Date: 24 February 2024
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/50s
ISO: 200
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.