This extensive summary catalogue is an invaluable reference work for scholars of British art.
It reveals the exceptional collections of British painting which have been assembled by the various directors, their advisers and curators of Australian and New Zealand museums. Illustrated are works by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, R. P. Bonington, G. F. Watts, Frederic Leighton, Ford Madox Brown, W. R. Sickert, Stanley Spencer, Ben Nicholson, Frances Hodgkins, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Patrick Heron, William Scott, Bridget Riley and many others.
The book contains two introductory essays, 2345 catalogue entries.
