Tempera – IMS Photography

Gathering Shell Fish, St Servan, France

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

Provenance: purchased from the artist, 1932

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Tempera on panel
Artist: James Walker Tucker (1898–1972)
Date: c. 1932

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: 400
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Market Day

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

A trip to market in days gone by could mean a long journey by rough roads or by river. However, Leighton has taken a romantic approach to the subject, dressing the women in elegant clothing. His picture reflects a nineteenth century fashion for most nostalgic, sentimental scenes of what life might have been like 100 years previously. The old village houses on the bank and the towers of a large church behind convey an impression of idyllic past times.

Provenance: John George Joicey Bequest, 1919

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Edmund Blair Leighton (1852–1922)
Date: 1900

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: 640
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Hiking

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

Walking became more popular as a pastime in the 1930s. These young women are smartly dressed in berets and shorts, fairly new developments for women’s clothing at the time.

In order to produce the smooth, bright colours seen in this picture, the artist chose to use tempera (pigment bound with egg rather than oil). James Walker Tucker trained at Newcastle’s School of Art.

Provenance: Purchased from the artist, 1936

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Tempera on panel
Artist: James Walker Tucker (1898-1972)
Date: Exhibited 1936

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: 500
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Le Havre

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

Wadsworth was a member of the short-lived Vorticist group of artists (1914-15). During the First World War he worked on designing dazzle: camouflage for ships, putting the abstract Vorticist style to practical use. He reverted to a more naturalistic style of painting around 1934-

Vorticism

The Vorticists were a British avant-garde group. of artists and writers formed in London in 1914 with the aim of creating art that expressed the dynamism of the modern world.

Avant-garde

As applied to art, avant-garde means art that is innovative, introducing or exploring new forms or subject matter.

Provenance: Purchased from the artist, 1948

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Tempera on panel
Artist: Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949)
Date: 1932

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: 1/50s
ISO: 500
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.

The Virgin and Child

Ian Malpass-Scott — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:12:00 +0000

Devotional images of the Virgin and Child were common in the home, especially in bedrooms.

Bellini specialized in such paintings early in his career. This small, intimate work may date from about 1470.

There may have been a painted curtain or a landscape background. The gilding was applied during restoration in the early 19005.

Provenance: Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Ashmolean Museum, 1987

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Material: Tempera and gilding on panel
Artist: Giovanni Bellini (about 1431/36-1516)
Date: circa 1470

Image Details
Date: 27 March 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/33s
ISO: 320
Licensing: Image of an Ashmolean Museum asset. This image cannot be licensed.

Portrait of a young Man

Ian Malpass-Scott — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:10:00 +0000

Painted probably in the 1480s, this portrait was at the height of fashion in Florence. The three-quarter view was replacing the traditional profile portrait, which recalled ancient coins and medals.

Ghirlandaio set his figure at an angle against a landscape background. These elements are inspired by Netherlandish art, which many Florentine merchants

Provenance: Fox-Strangways Gift, 1850

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Material: Tempera on panel
Artist: Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449-1494)
Date: circa 1480

St Jerome reading in a Landscape

Ian Malpass-Scott — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:58:00 +0000

The learned 4th century Saint Jerome studied Latin, Hebrew and Greek and is perhaps best known for his translations of the Bible. He retired to the desert of Chalcis (modern day Syria), here shown as a rocky wilderness, to lead a life of prayer and penance. While in the desert he befriended a lion (shown nearby) by removing a thorn from its paw. The Venetian artist Bellini has set the saint into a rocky landscape but has included buildings and a bridge in the distance typical of the region around Venice. Artists in this period often located sacred subjects in familiar local settings to help bring the scene into the present and to facilitate prayer and meditation.
This work was long believed to have been painted by one of Bellini’s many assistants, but the high quality of the work, combined with recent technical examination, suggests it was painted by the Master.

Provenance: Bequeathed by C.D.E. Fortnum, 1899

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Material: Tempera and possibly oil on panel
Artist: Giovanni Bellini (1431 or 1436 – 1516)
Date: circa 1478-80

Image Details
Date: 27 March 2025
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 an Ashmolean Museum asset. This image cannot be licensed.

St Jerome and St Ambrose

Ian Malpass-Scott — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:36:00 +0000

Juan de Borgoña, or his ancestors, probably originated in Burgundy. However, after a visit to Italy, he moved onto Spain, settling in Toledo in 1495 with a well developed early Renaissance style. His pictures were popular for their vivid colours and skilful depiction of costume. The gold and silver that was imported into Spain, from the newly discovered Americas, made the country one of the wealthiest powers in the world during the 16t century. The tooled gold backgrounds in these works are characteristic of Castilian painting from this period.

Together with St Jerome and St Ambrose, St Augustine and St Gregory were celebrated as the Fathers of the Church and were often represented in the wings of altarpieces.

These paintings once belonged to Alejandro Mon who was the Spanish Ambassador in Paris for a number of years during the 1850s and 1860s. He was a close friend of the Conde de Quinto from whose collection John and Joséphine acquired these paintings in 1862.

Provenance: bequeathed by the Founders, 1885

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Material: Tempera and gold on panel
Artist: Juan de Borgoña (active 1494-1536)
Date: 1510

Image Details
Date: 7 Feb 2025
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 Bowes Museum asset. This image cannot be licensed.

St Luke

Ian Malpass-Scott — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:36:00 +0000

St Luke was one of the four evangelists and is believed to have been a painter. He therefore became the patron saint of painters and is often shown with a brush and easel. Luke, Matthew, Mark and John each wrote a gospel, which are the books in the Bible telling the story of the life of Christ. The evangelists are thus often depicted writing, as in this work.

Provenance: 2002.10, Given by Mrs. Linda Murray in memory of her husband, Professor Peter Murray, through the Art Fund.

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Material: Oil on oak panel
Artist: Juan Pantoja de la Cruz (1554-1608)
Date: Unknown

Image Details
Date: 7 Feb 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/25s
ISO: 600
Licensing: Image of a Bowes Museum asset. This image cannot be licensed.

The Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Gold Dish

Ian Malpass-Scott — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:36:00 +0000

From the fifteenth century, the head of Saint John the Baptist on a dish was a common theme in Netherlandish painting. Its popularity lasted until the seventeenth century, when this work was probably made. The image is associated with the cult of relics and of Saint John the Baptist as the forerunner of Christ. His death is recounted in the Gospels as instigated by Herodias, after he criticised her marriage to Herod, her former brother-in-law. Representations of the beheading usually include the figure of Herodias’s daughter Salome, who requested the Saint’s head on a dish.

Provenance: bequeathed by the Founders, 1885

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Material: Tempera on panel
Artist: Dieric Bouts the elder (c.1415–1475) (after)
Date: early 17th C

Image Details
Date: 7 Feb 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/20s
ISO: 640
Licensing: Image of a Bowes Museum asset. This image cannot be licensed.