The exhibition "From Elizabeth to Victoria" will show portraits of famous Britons (Cromwell, Nelson, Newton, cook, Shakespeare, burns, Byron, etc.) from the collection of London's National portrait gallery — total of 49 paintings

the State Tretyakov gallery
23 April — on July 24 2016
the corps of engineers, Moscow, Lavrushinsky lane, 12

In the Engineering building of the State Tretyakov gallery on April 23, opened the exhibition "From Elizabeth to Victoria. English portrait from the collection of the National portrait gallery, London". The exhibition is held in the framework of the Year of language and literature of great Britain and Russia 2016.

the exhibition features 49 paintings, including portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, Oliver Cromwell, Horatio Nelson, Isaac Newton, James cook, William Shakespeare, Robert burns, George G. Byron, Walter Scott, Jerome K. Jerome and other.

• Gerard MARCUS the YOUNGER Portrait of Elizabeth I (Portrait of Dicle). OK. 1592
  , oil on Canvas. Size without frame: 241,3 × 152,4. Size in frame: 256,6 x 172,4 × 11,6
  Obtained under the will of Harold Lee-Диллона, Seventeenth Viscount Dillon in 1932
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• JOHN TAYLOR (attributed to) William Shakespeare. Around 1610
  , oil on Canvas. Size without frame: 55,2 × to 43.8. Size in frame: 75,4 × 63,8 × 7
  the Gift of Francis Egerton, the First Earl of Ellesmere in 1856
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"From Elizabeth to Victoria" — exhibition-подарок from London's National portrait gallery for the anniversary of the Tretyakov gallery. Both museums are celebrating this year 160-летие and prepared for a Year of language and literature of great Britain and Russia 2016 the exchange of exhibitions, cultural-образовательными programs for visitors and seminars for the professional community. The exhibition "From Elizabeth to Victoria" (Moscow) and "Russia and the arts: the era of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky" (London) present key works from the permanent exhibitions, which rarely leave the walls of museums.

• ROBERT WALKER, Oliver Cromwell. About 1649
  , oil on Canvas. Size without frame: 125,7 × 101,6. Size in frame: 143,6 x of 119.8 × 9
  Transferred from British Museum in 1879
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• Workshop of ENOCH SEAMAN Sir Isaac Newton. About 1726
  , oil on Canvas. Size unframed: 127 × 148. Size in frame: 156,8 x 178,7 x 16,5
  Transferred from British Museum in 1879
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national portrait gallery — popular Museum in the UK, it is annually visited by about two million people. It was created to "represent the portraits of famous British men and women". Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov largely relied on the experience of the National portrait gallery and the writings of its ideologue Thomas Carlyle, creating her portrait gallery "of persons dear nation".

• JOHN OPIE Mary Wollstonecraft. About 1797
  , oil on Canvas. Size without frame: 76,8 × 64,1. Size in frame: 105,2 × 92,2 × 7
  Obtained under the will of Jane Lady Shelley in 1899
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• SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS Sir Joshua Reynolds. About 1747-1749
  , oil on Canvas. Size without frame: 63,5 x 74,3. Size in frame: 84,7 × 97,3 × 10,3
  Acquired in 1858
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Exhibition of London brings together 49 of portraits of iconic figures in British history and culture, names that are familiar to us from the school curriculum. The exhibition will present a panorama of the development of English portraiture for over 300 years.

These works give an impulse for reflection about the value of individuality and the importance of the efforts of a particular person in history and culture. The exposition is based on chronological order. Inside time sections allocated to the thematic group: statesmen, scientists, explorers, writers, actors, artists.

• GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS, Ellen Terry (Choosing). About 1864
  Cardboard, oil. Size without frame: 47,2 × 35,2. Size in frame: 80,1 × 68 × 6,1
  Adopted by the British Government as payment of tax duties and transferred to the NPG in 1975
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• WILLIAM HOGARTH William Hogarth. About 1757
  , oil on Canvas. Size without frame: 45,1 × 42,5. Size in frame: 54 x 52,3 × 8,5
  Acquired in 1869
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In the first room you can see the famous lifetime portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, the so-called "Portrait of Dicle". On this canvas painted by Marcus Gerardi Junior Elizabeth stands on a map of England. Placed in the right side of the sonnet Queen is called "lady of light". Portrait of William Shakespeare — first work, presented to the National portrait gallery in 1856, on the occasion of its Foundation, for all the time he's barely left the exhibition halls.

• SIR WILLIAM BEACHY, Sarah Siddons (née Kemble) (Mrs. Siddons with the emblems of tragedy). 1793
  , oil on Canvas. Size without frame: 245,6 × 153,7. Size in frame: 256,5 x 165,7 × 11
  Gift l-ра D. M. MacDonald in 1977
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• SIR WILLIAM BEACHY Horatio Nelson. 1800
  , oil on Canvas. Size without frame: 62,3 × 48,3. Size in frame: 75,9 × 61,9 × 5,5
  Purchased in 1985 with the support of the Memorial Fund national heritage.
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In the second and third halls represented the image of Admiral Horatio Nelson (1800, W. Beachy), a portrait of the famous courtesan kitty Fisher (1765, N. Hawn) and dramatized portrait of Lord Byron (1835, Phillips). On an unusual double portrait — images of Joseph Chamberlain and Arthur Balfour (CA. 1895, by S. P. Hall), the leaders of the two warring political parties. A portrait of Charles Darwin (1883, J. Collier), which was donated to the Museum by the eldest son of the scientist. The way Jerome K. Jerome (CA. 1889, S. J. Solomon) was created at a time when the writer was working on his most famous book — "Three men in a boat, not counting the dog".

• THOMAS PHILLIPS (copy) George Gordon Byron, Sixth Baron Byron. About 1835 (from the original 1813)
  , oil on Canvas. Size without frame: 76,5 x 63,9. Size in frame: 95,7 × 83 × 7,8
  Acquired in 1862
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• THOMAS JONES BARKER's the Secret of British greatness (Queen Victoria presenting a Bible in the hall for an audience in Windsor). About 1863
  , oil on Canvas. Size without frame: 167,6 × 213,8. Size in frame: 215,3 × 263,2 × 16
  Acquired in 1974
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the Exhibition will be an important page in the history of the Russo-английских artistic connections. It will help to present the history and culture of great Britain in faces.

culturally Diverse-образовательная the program consists of three blocks. The first block addressed to a wide audience. In the framework of the Year of language and literature of great Britain and Russia 2016 together with the British Council prepared a series of 11 public evening lectures featuring leading British and Russian writers, curators, journalists and academics. It will be dedicated to key figures in British history. The programme of lectures covers a wide range of topics: the history of English neomercazoe culture, travel texts of Shakespeare around the world, the role of women in the eighteenth century and the emergence of feminism, the life of James cook and the development of Britain as a sea power, Darwin's theory, the political satire of William Hogarth and Lawrence stern, the literary legacy of Charles Dickens and the confrontation between Charles I and John Milton.

• JOHN COLLIER (copy) Charles Darwin. 1883 (originally 1881)
  , oil on Canvas. Size without frame: 125,7 × 96,5. Size in frame: the process is 156.5 × 127,1 × 8,3
  the Gift of the son model, William Erasmus Darwin in 1896
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• SOLOMON JOSEPH SOLOMON Jerome Jerome Klapka. About 1889
  oil on Board. Size without frame: 24,1 × 14,9. Size in frame: 36,7 x 27,2 x 6,7
  Obtained under the will of the widow of the models, Georgiana E. Stanley Jerome in 1966
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Adults and children targeted by the program, devoted to Russian film adaptation of British classics. In film projection will be shown 14 fiction films and animated films and movies-балетов 1924-1994.

the Second block — public program "Cultural leadership in the modern world". Speaking about cultural leadership, about the interaction of culture, religion, state and media are invited Mikhail Piotrovsky, Mikhail Shvydkoi, Konstantin Ernst, Kirill Serebrennikov, Aleksandr Mamut, sir kearon Dewan, Martin Roth, Yvonne Blazwick, Alistair Spalding. 7 dialogues-дискуссий will bring together experts and practitioners of cultural politics: heads of museums, galleries, theatres, curators, producers, critics.

the Third block — meeting of experts of the two Galleries, which will be held in Moscow and London. Museum teachers, guides and facilitators will share best practices: conduct practical sessions for children and adult audiences, will deliver lectures about the history and contemporary operation of two museums.

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