22-463: Abbot Hall may refer to: Abbot Hall Art Gallery , Kendal, Cumbria, England Abbot Hall (Marblehead, Massachusetts) , United States Abbot Hall (Phillips Exeter Academy) , Exeter, New Hampshire, United States Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Abbot Hall . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
44-461: A pediment above. It has one of the most important collections of George Romney ’s paintings in Britain and several of his sketchbooks and drawings. Paintings from the eighteenth century include a pair of views of Windermere by Philip James de Loutherbourg . There is also an important group of work by another local artist, Daniel Gardner . It has a significant collection of watercolours, mainly from
66-651: A display about English writer Arthur Ransome . His desk , typewriter and other memorabilia are exhibited. The gallery is also the official address of The Arthur Ransome Society . 2019 2018 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 54°19′23″N 2°44′38″W / 54.32306°N 2.74389°W / 54.32306; -2.74389 Philip James de Loutherbourg Philip James de Loutherbourg RA (31 October 1740 – 11 March 1812), whose name
88-720: A figure in the fashionable society of the day. In 1767 he was elected to the French Academy , although below the age required by the rules of the institution, and painted landscapes, sea storms, and battles, all of which work had a celebrity above those of the specialists then working in Paris. He made his debut with the exhibition of twelve pictures, including Storm at Sunset , Night , and Morning after Rain . Loutherbourg then travelled through Switzerland, Germany and Italy, distinguishing himself as much by his mechanical inventions as by his painting. One of these, showing new effects produced in
110-544: A model theatre, was the wonder of the day, with its use of lights behind canvas representing the moon and stars, and the illusory appearance of running water produced by clear blue sheets of metal and gauze, with loose threads of silver. In 1771 he settled in London, where David Garrick paid him £500 a year to design scenery and costumes and oversee the stage machinery at the Drury Lane Theatre . His stage effects attracted
132-576: A spectacle at a party in the Egyptian Hall at Fonthill for William Beckford , promising (according to Beckford) to "present a mysterious something that the eye has not seen or heart of man conceived". Following this he attempted rather more fantastical subjects for the Eidophusikon, presenting a scene from Paradise Lost with "Satan arraying his troops on the banks of the Fiery Lake, and the rising of
154-659: Is an art gallery in Kendal , England . Abbot Hall was built in 1759 by Colonel George Wilson, the second son of Daniel Wilson of Dallam Tower , a large house and country estate nearby. It was built on the site of the old Abbot's Hall, roughly where the museum is today. Before the Dissolution of the Monasteries this was where the Abbot or his representative would stay when visiting from the mother house of St Mary's Abbey, York . The architect
176-677: Is in stone on a plinth , with quoins , a belt course , a modillioned eaves cornice , and a parapet . The central block has two storeys with cellars, and there is a symmetrical east front of seven bays . Curved steps lead up to a central round-headed doorway in an architrave with moulded imposts , a projecting keystone , and an interlaced fanlight . This is flanked by two-storey canted bay windows , and outside these are recessed bays in one storey containing Venetian windows . The outermost two bays on each side are gabled , lower and further recessed, and have one storey. They contain two round-headed sash windows with an oval window in
198-605: Is sometimes given in the French form of Philippe-Jacques , the German form of Philipp Jakob , or with the English-language epithet of the Younger , was a French-born British painter who became known for his large naval works , his elaborate set designs for London theatres, and his invention of a mechanical theatre called the "Eidophusikon". He also had an interest in faith-healing and
220-490: Is unknown. During the early twentieth century the Grade I listed building was dilapidated and has been restored as an art gallery. As of January 2021 Abbot Hall was closed to the public while Lakeland Arts carried out a redevelopment of the building and grounds. The reopening is on 20 May 2023 with an exhibition by Julie Brook . Originally a town house , Abbot Hall was converted into an art gallery in 1957–62. The building
242-494: The Eidophusikon , meaning "image of nature". This was a miniature mechanical theatre measuring six by eight feet, and described as displaying "Various Imitations of Natural Phenomena, represented by Moving Pictures". It was presented at Loutherbourg's home from March 1781 in an auditorium seating about 130 people. He used Argand lamps to light the stage and stained glass to change colours. At Christmas, 1781, Loutherbourg mounted
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#1732855754539264-801: The Attack of the Combined Armies on Valenciennes (1793). He was interested in the Industrial Revolution , and his 1801 painting Coalbrookdale by Night shows iron foundries at work. Seven of his paintings, including Lodore Waterfall and Skating in Hyde Park , are in the Government Art Collection . He was made a member of the Royal Academy in 1781. Two sets of drawings by de Loutherbourg were published, reproduced in aquatint , under
286-763: The Glorious First of June (exhibited 1795) and other large naval pictures were commissioned to commemorate British naval victories, many of them ending up soon afterwards in the Greenwich Hospital Gallery (in whose successor, the National Maritime Museum , they still remain). His finest work was the Destruction of the Armada . He also painted the Great Fire of London and several historical works, including
308-705: The Loutherbourgs had cured two thousand people between Christmas 1788 and the following July, "having been made proper recipients to receive divine manuductions ". Loutherbourg died in Chiswick in west London in 1812. There are paintings by him in the collections of many British institutions including Tate Britain , the Victoria and Albert Museum , the National Portrait Gallery , the Royal Academy of Art , Leicester, Farnham and Derby Art Gallery . Loutherbourg
330-601: The Palace of Pandemonium". The Eidophusikon soon closed, however, as the income did not cover the costs and the audience demanded new productions faster than Loutherbourg could create them. He has been called the inventor of the panorama but, although it first appeared about the same time as the Eidophusikon, the first panorama was painted and exhibited by the Scottish painter Robert Barker . Despite these other projects, Loutherbourg still found time for painting. Lord Howe's action, or
352-463: The admiration not just of the general public, but also of artists, including Joshua Reynolds . He devised scenic effects in which, for instance, green trees gradually became russet and the moon rose and lit the edges of passing clouds: illusions achieved through the use of coloured lantern-slides and the ingenious lighting of transparencies. He continued to work at the theatre until 1785. He achieved an even greater success with an entertainment called
374-437: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abbot_Hall&oldid=651143609 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Architectural disambiguation pages Abbot Hall Art Gallery Abbot Hall Art Gallery
396-669: The occult, and was a companion of the confidence-trickster Alessandro Cagliostro . Loutherbourg was born in Strasbourg in 1740, the son of an expatriate Polish miniature painter . Intended for the Lutheran ministry, he was educated at the University of Strasbourg . Rejecting a religious calling, Loutherbourg decided to become a painter, and in 1755 placed himself under Charles-André van Loo in Paris, and later under Francesco Giuseppe Casanova . His talent developed rapidly, and he became
418-736: The ownership of the Lakeland Arts Trust ) went on display. The Victorian art critic and social commentator, John Ruskin , lived in the Lake District and the gallery has one of the most comprehensive collections of his drawings and watercolours. The modern collection concentrates more on painting but has sculptures by Barbara Hepworth , Jean Arp , and Elisabeth Frink . There are also works by Ben Nicholson , Kurt Schwitters , Bryan Wynter , Sean Scully , David Hockney , LS Lowry , Graham Sutherland , Victor Pasmore , David Bomberg , Hilde Goldschmidt and many others. The gallery also has
440-464: The second half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries. Many of the greatest watercolourists of the period are represented, including John Robert Cozens , David Cox , Peter De Wint , John Sell Cotman , John Varley and Edward Lear as well as J. M. W. Turner 's watercolours The Passage of Mount St. Gotthard and Windermere (1821). In 2011 a triptych of Lady Anne Clifford , entitled The Great Picture (currently (2011) in
462-427: The supernatural. He met Alessandro Cagliostro , who instructed him in the occult. He travelled about with Cagliostro, leaving him, however, before his condemnation to death. He and his wife also took up faith-healing. A pamphlet called A List of a Few Cures performed by Mr and Mrs De Loutherbourg, of Hammersmith Terrace, without Medicine was published in 1789. Written by a follower named Mary Pratt, it claimed that
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#1732855754539484-731: The title Picturesque English Scenery in 1801 and 1805. He also contributed illustrations to a Bible published by Thomas Macklin in 1800. After his death Cadell and Davies published a volume of the Apocrypha . All 110 of his drawings for the vignettes (but not the Apocrypha) are pasted in the Bowyer Bible in Bolton Museum in Greater Manchester . In 1789 Loutherbourg temporarily gave up painting, in order to pursue an interest in alchemy and
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