Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/9
Page: p. 28 recto
Description
A listing of a donation made by Sir Michael Sadler.
collection of English drawings presented by Michael Sadler
Date: 1933-1934
Transcription
{collection of English drawings presented by Michael Sadler}
864 Collection of English Drawings
Presented by Sir MICHAEL SADLER.
Sir Michael Sadler, K.C.S.I., C.B., a member of tlie Executive Committee, lias again made an important public gift, through the Fund and the Contemporary Art Society, to the Cooper Art Gallery, Barnsley, Yorkshire, of a collection of eighty-five English drawings, studies and sketches rather than elaborately finished work, dating between 1750 and 1083.
The Collection is based more upon personal taste than on representative character, yet opening with such names as Gainsborough, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Towne and Farington, it passes by way of Rowlandson, Dr. Monro and Thirtle to Turner, Girtin, Constable, Cotman, to the Victorian artists, David Cox, De Wint, Hunt, Lewis, Palmer, Lear, Buskin and Swann, to conclude with Steer, Sickert, John and other distinguished draughtsmen of our own day.