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Walk Through British Art
Walk through time and explore artworks from 1545 to the present day
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.
15 rooms in Walk Through British Art
A roaring success
If you thought you knew British art, visit and think again … there is no better place to go
Highlights

John Singer Sargent
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
1885–6

Francis Bacon
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
1944

Richard Dadd
The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke
1855–64

Henry Fuseli
Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers
?exhibited 1812
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