Laing Art Gallery – IMS Photography

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.

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.

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

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.

The Watch Office, RAF Station

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

In this night-time scene, made while Sorrell was working as an official war artist, an RAF watch office dominates a scene that is intimidatingly dark, windy and smoky. A man is shown running towards the shed in the foreground, suggesting a sense of urgency.

Provenance: Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee, 1947

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Pastel
Artist: Alan Sorrell (1904-1974)
Date: 1944

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: 1/33s
ISO: 640
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

Near Capel Curig, with a view of Mount Snowdon, Wales

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

In this watercolour, Glover captured the drama of the Welsh mountain Yr Wyddfa (also known as Snowdon in English), the tallest mountain in England and Wales.
The huge peak dominates the view – the dark colour palette and dramatic light also suggest the sublime.
However, the scene below, which includes a stream that leads the eye through the picture, is more idyllic.
The sheep and the figures in the foreground hint at how people make a living within this landscape.

Provenance: Gift from the Walker Mechanics Institute, 1942

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Watercolour
Artist: John Glover (1767-1849)
Date: about 1793-1830

Limestone Quarries, General View II

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

Sutherland made many views of quarries and mines while working as a War Artist during World War Two.

Here, the fiery red of the sky imbues the otherwise almost monochromatic scene with a dangerous atmosphere. The limestone cliffs below the sky appear bright white, while the people working with the stone seem elongated within a work environment that Sutherland shows as both surreal and hellish.

Provenance: Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee, 1947

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Watercolour, bodycolour and crayon on paper
Artist: Graham Sutherland (1903-1980)
Date: about 1942

Villa Joe

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

Villa Joe, a tapestry by Paul Noble in the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

Object description
Type: Tapestry
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Textile
Artist: Paul Noble (b. 1963)
Date: about 2012

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.

The Stone Pickers

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

Clausen was the son of a decorative artist of Danish descent. From 1867 to 1873, he attended design classes at South Kensington Schools (known today as the Royal College of Art), and subsequently studied in Paris under William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905). He was influenced by French plein-air painting – the practice of painting outdoors – and began to paint the rural field workers around his Hertfordshire home during the 188os. The Stone Pickers was purchased in 1907 from Artists of the Northern Counties, a selling exhibition held annually at the Laing from 1905 until 1935. Clausen was an official artist during the First World War and a founding member of the New English Art Club in 1886.

Provenance: Purchased from J. Staats Forbes, 1907

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: Sir George Clausen (1852-1944)
Date: 1887

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: 1/44s
ISO: 500
Licensing: Image of a North East Museums asset. This image cannot be licensed.