Past Exhibitions

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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Whitby Bridge by Sarah Ellen Weatherill (1836 – 1918) This atmospheric, moonlit scene is signed Sarah Buchanan, the second of George Weatherill and his wife’s, (also called Sarah), four children. George taught his daughter Sarah to paint and draw and ...
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Runswick by George Weatherill (1810-1890) George Weatherill was born into a farming family near the fishing village of Staithes. He was an intelligent child, who spent much of his spare time sketching. On leaving school he became an apprentice clerk ...
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Beach Scene by Florence Hess (1891-1974) Florence Hess was born in Leeds and studied at Leeds School of Art. From 1905 she studied with the Yorkshire painter Mark Senior who was an important member of the Staithes Group of Artists ...
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