The Fred Packard Museum and Galleries of British Sporting Art

The Fred Packard Museum and Galleries of British Sporting Art can be found in Palace House, Newmarket.  Housed in what was part of King Charles II’s sporting palace and stables the museum hosts a fine collection of equestrian art including works by George Stubbs, Alfred Munnings and John Wootton. The museum has on display  art works on loan from the Tate and the Victoria and Albert Museum alongside private and public art collections.

The National Horseracing Museum

The National Horseracing Museum in the Trainer’s House and King’s Yard Galleries in Newmarket, Suffolk has on display equestrian art, artefacts and memorabilia which together tell the story of racing  from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.  Racing heroes and their stories, royal connections to racing and the Jockey Club’s activities are told through the first class exhibits.  Using interactive and audio visual displays the museum also offers the visitor the opportunity to discover the importance of the thoroughbred pedigree and how it influences the physical attributes and ability of the elite race horses of today.

Yale Center for British Art

The Yale Center for British Art at Yale University can be found in downtown New Haven, Connecticut. The centre houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, rare books, and manuscripts reflects the development of British art and culture from the Elizabethan period to the present day. The centre was established as a result of a gift in 1966 from Paul Mellon (Yale College Class of 1929) of his British art collection. In addition, Mellon provided funds for the building of a centre to house the works along with an endowment to meet the day to day running costs of the centre. The building was designed by Louis I. Kahn and constructed at the corner of York and Chapel Streets in New Haven across the street from one of Kahn’s earlier buildings, the Yale University Art Gallery built in 1953. The museum’s collection includes more than 2,000 paintings, 250 sculptures, 20,000 drawings and watercolours, 40,000 prints, and 35,000 rare books and manuscripts. Works on view include masterpieces by esteemed British artists as well as major artists from Europe and America who lived and worked in Britain.

Walker Art Gallery

The Walker Art Gallery, situated in William Brown Street, Liverpool was opened on 6 September 1877. The museum is named after its founding benefactor, Sir Andrew Barclay Walker (1824–1893), a former mayor of Liverpool and a wealthy brewer born in Ayrshire, Scotland. In 1893, the Liverpool Royal Institution placed its art collection on long-term loan to the gallery and in 1948 presented William Roscoe’s collection and other works. The gallery’s collection includes Italian and Netherlandish paintings from 1300–1550 and European art from 1550–1900. 18th and 19th-century British art can be seen including a major collection of Victorian paintings and Pre-Raphaelite works. A wide collection of prints, drawings and watercolours and works of the 20th-century complete the extensive range of art exhibited at The Walker Art Gallery.

The Tate Britain

Tate Britain is an art museum situated on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London.  It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England which include Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network opening in 1897.  Originally known as the National Gallery of British Art it was renamed the Tate Gallery in 1932 after the sugar magnate Henry Tate of Tate & Lyle.  It was Henry Tate who laid the foundation of  the collection of modern art alongside the existing collection of British art.  In 2000 the museum changed its name to Tate Britain.  The museum houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom dating back to 1540 and is one of the largest art museums in the country.