The Vice Chancellor gave him the use of the Old Pathology Lecture Theatre for his classes in synthetic cosmology and the Director of The National Gallery accepted the offer of his live body as a living work of art ( on extended loan ).

It depicts Sir Nicholas Serota, Director of the Tate Gallery and the usual chairman of the Turner Prize jury, and satirises Young British Artist Tracey Emin's installation, My Bed, consisting of her bed and objects, including knickers, which she exhibited in 1999 as a Turner Prize nominee.

With that difficult experience behind them, Daryl abandoned painting to become Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, a position he held between 1942 and 1955.

The current Director of the National Gallery is Nicholas Penny.

In 2003, The Director of Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Paul Stafford, converted a run-down public convenience in Kingston town centre into The Toilet Gallery.

As Director of the National Gallery he oversaw the successful relocation and storage of the collection to avoid the Blitz and continued a programme of concerts and performances.

* Tony Ellwood, Director of the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art

The judging panel of the 2002 Turner Prize, which awarded the £ 20, 000 prize to Tyson, consisted of the critic Michael Archer, then Director of the Hayward Gallery, Susan Ferleger Brades, director of the Musée National d ' Art Moderne, at the Centre Georges Pompidou Alfred Pacquement, and collector Greville Worthington.

Positions on the board include: Spotlight, Films, Up All Night, Lectures, CUB Gallery, Concerts, VPLAC ( Visual, Performing, and Literary Arts Committee ), Special Event ( Homecoming and Springfest ), Associate Director, and Director.

It began in 1987 as a part of the town's sesquicentennial celebrations, and was conceived by the Art Gallery of Northumberland's former Director / Curator Peter Tulumello and former Concert Hall Manager Mark Finnan.

The CAAB recommended that Laurie Thomas, a former Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia and of the Queensland Art Gallery be appointed Director, but the Prime Minister John Gorton took no action on this recommendation, as he apparently favoured the appointment of James Johnson Sweeney, although he was already 70.

This action was highly criticized and in September, 1989, the Director of the Corcoran gallery, Christina Orr-Cahill, issued a formal statement of apology saying, " The Corcoran Gallery of Art in attempting to defuse the NEA funding controversy by removing itself from the political spotlight, has instead found itself in the center of controversy.

Barbeau in turn persuaded Eric Brown, Director of Canada's National Gallery to visit Carr in 1927, and Brown invited Carr to exhibit her work as part of an exhibition on West Coast aboriginal art at the National Gallery.

He was a financial consultant for Streets Financial Ltd, then became of Head of Development for the National Gallery, then Director of the auction house Sotheby's directly before his election from 1996.

* Sandy Nairne, Director of the National Portrait Gallery.

The current Director is Professor Ann Sumner ( since mid 2007 ), but in February 2012, it was announced that she had been appointed Director of the new Birmingham Museums Trust, comprising the merged Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Thinktank.

In 1978, Sir John Rothenstein, for nearly 30 years Director of the Tate Gallery, London, called Dora Carrington " the most neglected serious painter of her time.

The Duveen Gallery, sited to the west of the Egyptian, Greek & Assyrian sculpture galleries, was designed to house the Elgin Marbles by the American Beaux-Arts architect John Russell Pope.

He landed his first solo exhibition in 1953 at the John Heller Gallery, who represented artists such as Roy Lichtenstein.

In 1789 George Dance invented an Ammonite Order, a variant of Ionic substituting volutes in the form of fossil ammonites for John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery in Pall Mall, London.

General George Washington at Trenton by John Trumbull, Yale University Art Gallery ( 1792 ).

Severn is best known for his many portraits of Keats, the most famous being the miniature portrait in the National Gallery ( 1819 ), the pen-and-ink sketch, Keats on his Deathbed ( 1821 ), and the oil painting of the poet reading, John Keats at Wentworth Place ( 1821 – 23 ).

* Severn's portrait paintings of himself, Keats, Edward John Trelawny and John Hamilton Reynolds kept in the National Portrait Gallery in London

* National Gallery of Art: Selections from John James Audubon's The Birds of America ( 1826 – 1838 )

* John Walker ( curator ) ( 1906 – 1995 ), director of the National Gallery of Art

Among his famous drawings are the Vitruvian Man, a study of the proportions of the human body, the Head of an Angel, for The Virgin of the Rocks in the Louvre, a botanical study of Star of Bethlehem and a large drawing ( 160 × 100 cm ) in black chalk on coloured paper of The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist in the National Gallery, London.

He also may have painted the Madonna and Child with John the Baptist, known as the Manchester Madonna and now in the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom.

Gallery of famous 17th-century Puritan theologians: Thomas Gouge, William Bridge, Thomas Manton, John Flavel, Richard Sibbes, Stephen Charnock, William Bates ( Puritan ) | William Bates, John Owen ( theologian ) | John Owen, John Howe ( Puritan ) | John Howe, Richard Baxter.

Lilith ( 1892 ) by John Collier ( artist ) | John Collier in Southport Atkinson Art Gallery

It has never been confirmed that Masaccio collaborated on that work, even though it is possible that he contributed to Masolino's polyptych for the altar of Santa Maria Maggiore with his panel portraying St. Jerome and St. John the Baptist, now in the National Gallery of London.

According to the first, on 9 November 1966 Lennon went to the Indica Gallery in London, where Ono was preparing her conceptual art exhibit, and they were introduced by gallery owner John Dunbar.

* November 9 – John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at the Indica Gallery.

Image: John Jay at National Portrait Gallery IMG 4446. JPG | John Jay

File: John Randolph of Roanoke at National Portrait Gallery IMG 4460. JPG | Congressman John Randolph of Virginia

The Stuckism art movement had its origin in punk, and titled its first major show The Stuckists Punk Victorian at the Walker Art Gallery during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial.

Echo and Narcissus ( John William Waterhouse, 1903, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool )

After exhibiting in small galleries in Shoreditch, London, the Stuckists ' first show in a major public museum was held in 2004 at the Walker Art Gallery, as part of the Liverpool Biennial.

It was held at the Walker Art Gallery and Lady Lever Art Gallery and was part of the 2004 Liverpool Biennial.

* In 2005, the Stuckists offered a donation of 175 paintings which had been exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery.

There are examples of Dobson's work at the National Gallery, the National Gallery of Scotland, Tate Britain, the National Portrait Gallery, the National Maritime Museum, Queen's House in Greenwich, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, in several English country houses, and at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery in New Zealand.

* The cathedral that never was — exhibition of Lutyens ' cathedral model at the Walker Art Gallery

Image: John_Everett_Millais_-_Isabella. jpg | Isabella ( 1849 ) Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Image: JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS-The Martyr of the Solway ( Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, c. 1871.

Óleo sobre lienzo, 70. 5 x 56. 5 cm ). jpg | The Martyr of the Solway ( c. 1871 ) Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Footnotes to the Millais Exhibition ( Walker Art Gallery ( Liverpool Bulletin, No 12 1967 ).

* Bennett, Mary ( catalogue ) ( Walker Art Gallery and Royal Academy catalogue 1967 ).

There are major collections of Pre-Raphaelite work in the Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Manchester Art Gallery, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.