Past Exhibitions

Leo Walmsley by Dame Ethel Walker (1861 – 1951) We are now open and are delighted to welcome you back to the Pannett Art Gallery. Some things may have changed since you last visited.  Please check out the Your Visit ...
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Low Tide On The Beck by Harrington Mann 1864 - 1937 ​ We are delighted to welcome you back to the Pannett Art Gallery. Some things may have changed since you last visited.  Please check out the Your Visit section ...
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Sailing Ships in Whitby Harbour by Arthur Rackham (1867 –1939) Arthur Rackham was one of the leading artists and book illustrators in a time that is described as the Golden Age of British Book Illustration. Born in London, Arthur Rackham was ...
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A Fireside Read by Ernest Higgins Rigg (1868 – 1947) Born in Bradford, Ernest Higgins Rigg studied at the Bradford School of Art.  He went on to enrol at the Académie Julian, a prestigious private art school in Paris, popular with British ...
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Staithes Group of Artists Exhibition 2020Staithes Group specialists since 1974, Tom and Rosamund Jordan, are unfortunately unable to stage their exhibition at the Pannett Art Gallery this Summer due to the Corona Virus. Most of their paintings can be seen ...
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Egton Horse Fair by John Atkinson, 1863-1924 John Atkinson was born in Newcastle and studied at the Newcastle School of Art. His was a well respected artist and exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy as well as at the Royal ...
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Whitby Harbour by Elias Bancroft  1846–1924 Elias Mollineaux Bancroft was born in Cheshire.  He studied at the Royal College of Art and later taught at the Manchester School of Art. He is known as a landscape painter but his paintings ...
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Unloading Cargo by Richard Weatherill (1844 – 1923) Richard was the youngest of George and Sarah Weatherill’s four children.  If he had been in better health Richard would probably have pursued a career at sea, but instead he served a ...
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