Spanish Art to 1960
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 60 Spanish paintings. These date broadly from 1500 to 1800. This collection is the second largest of its kind in the UK. It mostly consists of paintings from the late 16th and 17th century, by artists such as El Greco, Cano and Murillo and the workshops of Velazquez and Ribera. Later works in the collection include paintings by Goya, Juan Gris, Picasso and Salvador Dali, who is represented by the iconic painting ‘Christ of St John of the Cross’. The collection of Spanish paintings at Pollok House is of particular historical interest as it was formed largely by a pioneering local collector, William Stirling-Maxwell (1818–1878). The substantial group of Habsburg portraits, which reflects Stirling-Maxwell’s preoccupation with the history of Spain, is notably the finest outside Madrid and Vienna.
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