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
Chris Ofili,
No Woman, No Cry 1998. Tate. © Chris Ofili, courtesy Victoria Miro, London
Walk through time and explore artworks from 1545 to the present day
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Art in this display
Chris Ofili No Woman, No Cry
1998
John Singer Sargent Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
1885–6
Francis Bacon Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
c.1944
Richard Dadd The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
1855–64
Rooms in this display
1760
Discover artworks from 1760–1780, a period dominated by the work of Sir Joshua Reynolds
A roaring success
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