These rooms offer a chronological display of Britain’s greatest artists, taken from the collection. Instead of designated themes or movements, the display is is arranged by decade, so you can see an array of art made at any one moment.
Tate Britain
Walk Through British Art
Main Floor
George Frederic Watts and assistants,
Hope 1886. Tate
Walk through time and explore artworks from 1545 to the present day
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Art in this display
John Singer Sargent Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
1885–6
Richard Dadd The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
1855–64
Sir John Everett Millais, Bt Christ in the House of His Parents (‘The Carpenter’s Shop’)
1849–50
Henry Fuseli Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers
?exhibited 1812
Rooms in this display
1760
Discover artworks from 1760–1780, a period dominated by the work of Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sixty years
60 Years continues the Walk through British Art with work by women artists from 1960s to the present day
A roaring success
If you thought you knew British art, visit and think again … there is no better place to go
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A queer walk through British art
Explore some of the ways sexualities and gender identities have been thought about and depicted in British art
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