We’re missing our paintings - luckily we have props, pets and children to recreate them. Let us take you on a very special tour of our collection.. we start with Horse Frightened by (a very cute) Lion by Liverpool artist, George Stubbs https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦁" title="Lion face" aria-label="Emoji: Lion face"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐴" title="Horse face" aria-label="Emoji: Horse face"> #CultureInQuarantineMW #MuseumWeek

A motley crew of inquisitors in this take of one of our best known paintings, ‘And When Did You Last See Your Father?’ by Yeames. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⚔️" title="Crossed swords" aria-label="Emoji: Crossed swords">

A young boy busy with his task in The Stonebreaker by John Brett. At one with the natural landscape and alone in his job apart from a little white dog for company https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐶" title="Dog face" aria-label="Emoji: Dog face"> #MuseumWeek #CultureInQuarantineMW

Sweet Millie Smith (by Ford Madox Brown) presumably had to sit in her pose for a lot longer than her 2020 equivalent (..& we suspect with a lot less complaining too https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes" aria-label="Emoji: Face with rolling eyes"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👧🏻" title="Girl (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Girl (light skin tone)">) #CultureInQuarantineMW #MuseumWeek

The lighting of ‘Cat with Game Bird’ by Desportes is faithfully recreated with the help of catnip and patience... #MuseumWeek #CultureinQuarentineMW

The much-loved ‘no-nonsense’ expression of Mrs Mounter by Harold Gillman is captured with absolutely no bribery whatsoever... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👌🏽" title="Ok hand (medium skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Ok hand (medium skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="☕️" title="Hot beverage" aria-label="Emoji: Hot beverage"> #MuseumWeek #CultureInQuarantineMW

Still with us..? The sexual tension and symbolism of Millais’ Isabella is perfectly captured here... in LEGO https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔥" title="Fire" aria-label="Emoji: Fire"> #MuseumWeek #CultureInQuarantineMW
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Has there ever been so much fury expressed in the eyebrows than in Sandys’ Helen of Troy? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👩🏻‍🦰" title="Woman, red haired (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman, red haired (light skin tone)">
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A career on the stage surely beckons for this young man as he takes on the drama and tension of ‘David Garrick as Richard III’ by William Hogarth
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