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o Burrell Collection Rembrandt van Rijn
This self-portrait, signed and dated VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
1632, has pride of place among the
Given to the city in 1944 by Sir William paintings hanging in the 16th- and Practical Information
Burrell (1861–1958), a wealthy shipping 17th-century room. 2060 Pollokshaws Rd, Glasgow.
owner, this inter nationally acclaimed Tel (0141) 287 2550. Open 10am–
5pm Mon–Thu, Sat & 11am–5pm
collection is the gem in Glasgow’s Fri, Sun. 0 - ^ 8 7 = d
crown but is closed for refurbishment Mezzanine floor ∑ glasgowlife.org.uk/museums
until 2020. The building housing these Transport
pieces was purpose-built in 1983. When 3 Pollokshaws West. @ 34, 45
the sun shines in, the stained glass or 57 from Glasgow.
blazes with colour, while the shaded
tapestries seem a part of the Figure of a Luohan Gallery Guide
surrounding woodland. This sculpture of Except for a mezzanine-floor
The Georgian Pollok House, Buddha’s disciple display of paintings, the
viewed from the south dates from the Ming exhibitions are on the ground
Dynasty (1484). floor. Right of the entrance hall,
i Pollok House rooms are devoted to tapestries,
stained glass and sculpture,
2060 Pollokshaws Rd. Tel (0141) 616
6410. Open 10am–5pm daily. & while ancient civilizations,
7 partial. - = « Oriental art and the period
galleries are ahead.
Pollok House is Glasgow’s finest
18th-century domestic building
and contains one of Britain’s Key to Floorplan
best collections of Spanish Hutton Castle Drawing Room Ancient civilizations
paintings. The Neo -Classical This is a reconstruction of the Drawing Oriental art
central block was finished in Room at Burrell’s own home – the Medieval art
1750, the sobriety of its exterior 16th-century Hutton Castle, near Berwick- Matthijs Maris
contrasting with the exuberant upon-Tweed. The Hall and Dining Room This popular Dutch Period galleries
plasterwork within. The Maxwells can also be seen nearby. painter’s ethereal style Hutton Castle rooms
have lived at Pollok since the appealed to late Paintings and drawings
mid- 13th century, but the 19th -century tastes. Temporary exhibition area
male line ended with Sir John Bull’s Head The Sisters (1875) is one
Maxwell, who added the grand Dating from the of over 50 Maris works
7th century BC,
entrance hall in the 1890s and this bronze acquired by Burrell.
design ed most of the terraced head from
gar dens and parkland beyond. Turkey was
Hanging above the family once part of
silver, porcelain, hand-painted a cauldron . Tapestries
Chinese wallpaper and handle. Hutton Castle Ground floor Peasants Hunting
Jaco bean glass, the Stirling Drawing Room Rabbits with Ferrets is a
Pollok paintings are strong lively Flemish tapestry
that was woven from
on British and Dutch schools, wool and silk in the
including William Blake’s Lecture theatre mid-15th century. It is
Sir Geoffrey Chaucer and the one of several vast
Nine and Twenty Pilgrims (1745) works on show here.
as well as William Hogarth’s
portrait of James Thomson,
who wrote the words to Rule
Britannia. Spanish 16th- to
19th-century art predominates:
El Greco’s Lady in a Fur Wrap
(1541) hangs in the library,
while the drawing room
con tains works by Francisco de
Goya and Esteban Murillo. In Hornby Portal
1966 Anne Maxwell Macdonald This detail shows the . Stained Glass
gave the house and extensive arch’s heraldic display. A man warming himself before a fire is
natural parkland to the City of The 14th-century one of many secular themes illustrated in
Glasgow. The park provides the portal comes from the stained-glass display. This 15th-century
Main entrance
site for the city’s fascinating Hornby Castle in Main entrance piece once decorated a church in Suffolk.
Burrell Collection. Yorkshire.
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