This article is about the museum in Barnard Castle, England. For the railway museum named after the same family, see Bowes Railway. For the museum in Orange County, California, see Bowers Museum.
The Bowes Museum is an art gallery in the town of Barnard Castle, in County Durham in northern England. It was built to designs by Jules Pellechet and John Edward Watson to house the art collection of John Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier, and opened in 1892.
It contains paintings by El Greco, Francisco Goya, Canaletto, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher, together with items of decorative art, ceramics, textiles, tapestries, clocks and costumes, and objects of local historical interest. Some early works of Émile Gallé were commissioned by Coffin-Chevallier. There is an eighteenth-century Silver Swan automaton, which periodically preens itself, looks round and appears to catch and swallow a fish.
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to win the Triple Crown, in 1853. Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier founded the BowesMuseum, which is of national status. Housed...
invented the first commercially available postage meter, and Walter Bowes as the Pitney Bowes Postage Meter Company on April 23, 1920. The company provides...
The House had come to the Bowes family by the fifteenth century. For much of the nineteenth century, it was owned by John Bowes, the eldest son of the 10th...
museum of Japanese art in the western world. James Lord Bowes was born in Horsforth, Leeds, UK, the youngest of six surviving children of John Bowes (Wool...
Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. Belgian-born John Joseph Merlin created the mechanism of the Silver Swan automaton, now at BowesMuseum. A musical...
part of an exhibition that ran alongside the Festival of Britain at BowesMuseum in 1951 and again there in 1988. In July 2021 the National Gallery, London...
Returning to the Molo (1730–1735) (BowesMuseum, Barnard Castle, England) The Molo, Venice (approximate date) (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas) A Regatta...
exhibition about the life and work of Jeremiah Dixon was mounted at the BowesMuseum in Barnard Castle in England in 2013. Titled Jeremiah Dixon: Scientist...
In 1958, days after starting as director of the BowesMuseum, inspired by Scandinavian folk museums, and realising the North East's traditional industries...
innovative keyboard instruments. In 1783 he opened Merlin's Mechanical Museum in Princes Street, Hanover Square, London, a meeting-place for the gentry...
of a Lady in 16th Century Dress, BowesMuseum Young Woman Playing the Virginals, 1548, Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz Museum Girl at the Virginal, 1548, Possibly...
exhibited at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London 5 February – 11 May 2014 and BowesMuseum, County Durham 7 June – 28 September 2014, with an accompanying publication...
held at the BowesMuseum in nearby Barnard Castle. Streatlam was rebuilt by Sir George Bowes following damage in the 16th century; the Bowes family had...
Katherine "Kae" (née Dirrane) and John S. Bowes. He is a brother of science fiction writer Richard Bowes. Bowes attended Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)...
the painting after originally spotting it online. It was discovered in BowesMuseum, Teesside, but was being held in storage and was not on display. The...
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