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 #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.

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 #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 ) #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... #MuseumWeek #CultureInQuarantineMW

Still with us..? The sexual tension and symbolism of Millais’ Isabella is perfectly captured here... in LEGO #MuseumWeek #CultureInQuarantineMW
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Has there ever been so much fury expressed in the eyebrows than in Sandys’ Helen of Troy?
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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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