Frank Holl
Hush! (1877)
Tate
In 1897 the Tate Gallery was ceremonially opened by King Edward VII, then Prince of Wales.
Sir Henry Tate, the benefactor to whose generosity the Gallery owes its existence, in addition to defraying the cost of the original building, and of considerable later extensions, presented to the nation his collection of sixty-five paintings and two pieces of sculpture, which, with a few exceptions, were works of the Victorian period.
To commemorate this Anniversary a selection has been made from the pictures included in the Foundation Gift.
To these have been added The Order of Release and The Boyhood of Raleigh by Millais, the first of which was presented by Sir Henry Tate in 1898, and the second by his widow, in memory of her husband, in 1900.
The Director of Tate Gallery also selected 123 pictures which seemed to him to illustrate most clearly the development of British painting.
In his selection he laid particular emphasis on the painting done the war artists, since this was, of course, entirely unknown in Europe.When it became known that this exhibition was available it was invited to almost every European capital, and it proved possible to arrange for it to be shown in Brussels, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Paris, Berne, Vienna, Prague, Warsaw and Rome.
