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Holloway paintings to tour US
Royal Holloway is sending its collection of Victorian paintings on a two-year tour of the United States.
The Egham-based university has 60 canvases, which were amassed by its founder Thomas Holloway in the late 1800s, and this will be the first time they have been exhibited overseas.
The exhibition entitled 'Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection, London', will be on show at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on October 12, and then travel to other major American art museums until 2010.
The choir of Royal Holloway will perform at in the United States as part of the tour.
Principal professor Stephen Hill said: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to raise Royal Holloway's profile in the United States of America. We shall do all we can to ensure that the College leaves a lasting impression on all those who come into contact with some of our finest treasures."
Dr Mary Cowling, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art at Royal Holloway and curator of the collection, is guest curator of the exhibition.
The collection includes scenes of contemporary life, as well as historical events, landscapes, animal studies, and marine subjects, the exhibition demonstrates Holloway's Victorian ideal of art as the ultimate civilizing influence, says the university.
Amongst Holloway's purchases are some of the most famous of the period, including Edwin Long's meticulous reconstruction of the ancient world, Babylonian Marriage Market (1875), William Powell Frith's Dickensian social panorama, The Railway Station (1862), and Sir John Everett Millais' superbly
iconic history lesson, Princes in the Tower (1878).
Find out more at - http://www.rhul.ac.uk/USA-Tour/
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