Room 1
Importing the New Painting to Britain
The 1870S
The paintings in this room show the dynamic new approach to the human figure and modern city life introduced to Britain by French artists in the 1870s.
James Tissot 1836-1902
London Visitors about 1874
Oil on canvas
Milwaukee Art Museum
James
Tissot 1836-1902
The Gallery of HMS Calcutta (Portsmouth) about 1876
Tate, London
James Tissot 1836-1902
The Ball on Shipboard about 1874
Oil on canvas
Tate, London
Edgar Degas 1834-1917
The Rehearsal 1871
Oil on canvas
© Glasgow Museums: The Burrell Collection
Edgar Degas 1834-1917
Two Dancers on the Stage 1874
Oil on canvas
The Samuel Cortauld Trust, Cortauld Institute of Art Gallery, London
George Clausen 1852-1944
A Spring Morning, Haverstock Hill 1881
Oil on canvas
Estate of George Clausen. Bury Art Gallery & Museum, Lancashire
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Harmony in Grey and Green: Miss Cicely Alexander 1872-4
Oil on canvas
Tate, London
Edgar Degas 1834-1917
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen 1880, cast about 1922
Painted bronze with muslin
Tate, London
Edgar Degas 1834-1917
Carlo Pellegrini about 1876-7
Oil on paper mounted on board
Tate, London
Tate. Presented by the National Art Collections Fund 1916
Henri Fantin-Latour 1836-1904
Mr and Mrs Edwin Edwards 1875
Oil on canvas
Tate, London
William Quiller Orchardson 1832-1910
Master Baby 1886
Oil on canvas
© National Galleries of Scotland. Photo: Antonia Reeve
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