William Dobson’s Self-Portrait (round 1635-40)
Tate and Nationwide Portrait Gallery, London
Described by one Seventeenth-century biographer as “probably the most glorious painter that England hath but bred”, William Dobson (1611-46) succeeded Anthony van Dyck as a court docket artist to the exiled Charles I in the course of the English Civil Struggle. Dobson died in poverty at age 35 after the king and his royalists have been defeated by parliament, leaving round 60 work to his identify. Tate and the Nationwide Portrait Gallery have joined forces to fulfil a decades-long ambition to accumulate this uncommon early self-portrait, which is able to go on view in November at Tate Britain forward of a UK tour. The portray was bought by personal treaty sale for £2.4m, with lead assist from the Nationwide Lottery Heritage Fund.
Invoice Viola’s Tristan’s Ascension (The Sound of a Mountain Below a Waterfall) (2005)
Courtesy Deihtorhallen, Hamburg
Invoice Viola’s full moving-image works
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York
The George Eastman Museum will digitise the entire moving-image works of Invoice Viola in what its director, Bruce Barnes, calls “a landmark venture and donation”. A pioneer within the rising know-how of video within the early Nineteen Seventies, Viola created emotionally resonant installations meditating on life and demise, spirituality and the weather. The Viola-Perov Belief, which has stewarded the artist’s legacy following his demise in July 2024, donated greater than 200 works initially recorded on magnetic media and 35mm movie to the Eastman Museum for long-term preservation. The venture will create high-resolution digital masters of every supply recording—one copy for the museum and one for the Viola-Perov Belief—which shall be periodically up to date to new generations of know-how.
Picture: courtesy Ansen Seale
Mountain Panorama (Root Memorial Window) by Tiffany Studios (1917)
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Artwork, Bentonville, Arkansas
This monumental Tiffany Studios stained-glass window, depicting a waterfall on the centre of a wooded panorama, was put in for greater than 90 years in a chapel in San Antonio, Texas. Designed by Agnes F. Northrop in 1917, the window was initially commissioned for the Omaha headquarters of Woodmen of the World—a fraternal profit organisation—in tribute to its founder, Joseph Cullen Root. In 1931, it was relocated to a chapel of the organisation’s San Antonio tuberculosis hospital, which was taken over by the Sundown Ridge Church within the late Nineteen Fifties. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Artwork has now acquired the window and can preserve it in preparation for its main campus enlargement, opening in 2026.
