Bentley Priory

On the northern edge of the Greater London area sits Bentley Priory, a stately home dating from the 1760's.  The residence of Dowager Queen Adelaide in the mid-1800's, it was used as the Royal Air Force command center during the WWII Battle of Britain in 1940.

George VI, 1941

Adelaide's bedroom, 1848

Adelaide, wife of William IV

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth at Bentley Priory, 1991

Spitfire, 1940

 

V&A Photography Centre

The Victoria & Albert has just opened its revamped Photography Centre.  The V&A was the first museum to collect photographs, starting in 1852.

The V&A, in South Kensington

Photography galleries

Photography library

Motion studies by Muybridge, 1887

Dervishes in Cairo, 1870

London leather workers, 1861

by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1867

Welsh coal miners, 1930's

by Dorothea Lange, 1937

Lange, 1937

 

After Impressionism

After Impressionism is the current show at the National Gallery, on Trafalgar Square.  It explores the dawn of modernist art, from 1880 to 1910.

The Walking Man, by Rodin, 1905

by Gaugin, 1897

by Degas, 1880

Degas, 1896

Van Gogh, 1890

Van Gogh, 1888

Signac, 1891

The Implorer, by Camille Claudel, 1899

by Camarasa, 1904

The Automobile, by Ramon Casas, 1901

by Picasso, 1901

Picasso, 1901

Klimt, 1912

Braque, 1909

Bathers, by Cezanne, 1900

The Dance, by Derain, 1906

by Massys, 1513